Prāna Vāyu Flashcards
Where is Prāna Vāyu located? What is the movement of Prāna Vāyu? What function of the brain is Prāna Vāyu connected with? What is the action Prāna Vāyu is resposible for in the body? What is the realtionship of Prāna Vāyu to the mind?
What is the governing element of prāna vāyu?
Ether
What are the primary sites of prāna vāyu?
Head, Brain
What is sanskrit word that means ‘to fill the space’?
Pūrana: to fill the space
What is the direction of prāna vāyu?
Downward, Inward
Where is Prāna Vāyu located?
Prāna is present in the cranial cavity
What is the movement of Prāna Vāyu?
Prāna Vāyu moves downward and inward (moves from head to throat, heart, trachea, lungs, diaphragm)
What function of the brain is Prāna Vāyu connected with?
Prāna Vāyu is connected with higher cerebral function
What is the action Prāna Vāyu is resposible for in the body?
Prāna is resposible for inhilation
What is the realtionship of Prāna Vāyu to the mind?
Prāna moves the mind and prāna becomes the mind. If one controls prāna, one can control the mind. Mind is a flow of thought as the river is the flow of water. As the water so the river, the mind becomes that which it thinks.
What function does prāna vāyu serve in the sensitive film of white matter covering the brain (tarpaka kapha)?
Prāna vāyu records every visual, olfactory, and tactile experience. The “ink” that is used to record the experience is sādhaka pitta.
Decribe the flow of prāna
Awareness
Attention
Perception
Sensation
Feelings
Emotion
Motionless Prāna is Pure Awareness. The moment prāna moves in a direction awareness become attention, attention becomes perception. Through perception, prāna creates sensation, the sensation becomes feelings, then thoughts arise and feelings become emotion. Emotion is the reaction to the flow of prāna and all emotions come from memory.
What are prāna vāyu disorders?
Disorders above the belly button are associated with prāna vāyu.
Palpitation means undue awareness of the heartbeat and is a prānic disorder
Dypsnea, undue awareness of respiration, or breathlessness
Anxiety, nervousness, fear and anger
Inability to focus the mind
Stroke paralysis, grand mal epilepsy, sleep apnea, tremors of Parkinson’s
Respiratory disorders including: bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, hiccoughs and constant burping
What is prāna from a neurological standpoint?
An intelligent flow of neuro-electricity that is moving through the nerves and delivering a message
What is the function of DNA and RNA?
What is prāna’s relationship to DNA and RNA?
DNA creates new cells
RNA are the messenger molecules
Prāna brings the message from DNA to RNA
Which guna of pitta helps to open the pyloric valve?
What two upadoshas of vāta are involved in the opening of the pyloric valve?
This opening is created by what guna of vāta?
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