“Try it. Breathe slowly and smoothly. A pervasive sense of calm descends. Now breathe rapidly and frenetically. Tension mounts. Why? It’s a question that has never been answered by science, until now”.
Those are lines from the first paragraph of a study at Stanford University which seeks to explain why deep breathing calms the mind. The business standard writes “Scientists from Stanford University's school of medicine in the U.S. have discovered the specific neurons that connect breathing and state of mind and blah blah blah….
It actually took scientists till now to find out something that people around the world have been observing ever since Yoga hit the western world. Yoga discovered centuries ago in India and based on the protocols of deep breathing and meditation is finally being proved by science when it never really required proving because Yoga is a science in itself. In-depth study of the subject explains why it helps you. Science it seems never knew that.
Because the one weakness of science is to dismiss anything it cannot see or feel or conform to a physical model.
1 Yoga also advocates deep breathing calms the mind and it was discovered 5000 years ago
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Well here is how the tenets of yoga and the practice of deep breathing to induce calm have been proved at Stanford. The paper describes a cellular and molecular understanding of how such principles work said Mark Krasnow MD, PhD professor of biochemistry and the senior author of the study. Yes they do mention that the practice of pranyama or yoga advocates the control of breathing to alter ones consciousness from a frantic stressed out state to a meditative one.
Yoga is officially regarded to be 5000 years old developing in Vedic India. However, researchers are of the belief that due to its secretive nature and the fact that its original treatises were written on leaves and bark, many may have disappeared and thus Yoga could well be 10,000 years old.
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