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Care for Kids' Memory Power

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Memory is the ability of the brain to encode, retain and recall previously experienced information, such as im-pressions, sensations, skills, events and situations. The ability to retrieve and use the stored knowledge of past experiences is essential in the learning process.

In psychology, memory is considered as a process in which the incoming information from the outside world reaches our senses in a form of chemical or physical stimuli which has to be changed, or 'encoded' in order to be retained. Then this stored information is available, over periods of time so that it can be recalled and be used again as needed.

Long Term Memory is that aspect of the memory in which the information is stored permanently. Theoreti-cally, this form of memory has unlimited capacity to store information. Short Term Memory is that aspect of the memory in which the individual is conscious of the infor-mation at a given moment but this information has to be rehearsed or be linked to information stored in Long Term Memory or it will otherwise be lost. The capaci-ty of Short Term Memory is limited to about seven items.

Attention plays a key role in storing information into the Long Term Memory. Without paying proper attention to the information it might not be stored and thus it can-not be retrieved and used again. Absent mindedness is a memory failure which is caused by lack of attention. Transience is the memory failure in which the memo-ries fade and degrade over a period of time. This occurs in the storage stage of memory, before the information is retrieved. Transience has a general pattern of rapid-ly forgetting the information after a few days or years, followed by small losses in the following days or years.

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED

  1. PADMA ASANA
  1. SHEETHALEE KUMBHAKA
  1. SEETHKAAREE PRAANAAYAAMA
  1. UJJAYYEE KUMBHAKA

1. PADMA ASANA
HATHA PRADEEPIKAA, UPADESHA 2,
VERSES 31 -33

हठप्रदीपिका उपदेशं २ स्लोक ३१-३३

उत्तानौ चरणौ कृत्वा चोरु संस्थौ प्रयत्नतः ।
ऊरुमध्ये ततोथानौ पाणी कृत्वा तु तादृशौ ॥

दृष्टिं विन्यस्य नासाग्रे दन्तमूलं च जिह्वया ।
उत्तप्य चिबुकं वक्षस्युत्ताप्य भवनं शनैः ॥

इदं पद्मासनं प्रोक्तं सर्व व्याधि विनाशनम ।
दुर्लभं येन केनापि धीमता लभ्यते भुवि ॥

Uththanau Charanau Kruthvaa choru-Samsthau
Prayathnathaha |
Oorumadhye Thathoththaanau Paanee Kruthvaa
Thu thaadrushau ||2.31||

Drushtim vinyasya naasaagre Dantamoolam cha jihvayaa |
Uttapya chibukam vakshas Yuttaapya bhavanam shanaihi
||2.32||

Idham Padmaasanam Proktham Sarva-Vyaadhi-
Vinaashanam |
Durlabham yena kenapi Dheemataa labhyate bhuvi ||2.33||

TRANSLATION

One should with effort place the upward facing feet on the thighs, and place the upward-facing palms between the thighs.

Concentrating on the tip of the nose, keep the tongue pressed on the upper teeth, press the chin on your chest, push the air slowly upward, that is slowly pull the prana upward.

This asana called as Padma asana destroys all diseases, filled with power. Though difficult to be obtained by every-one, some intelligent people learn it.

(See Figure 1 p.73)

TECHNIQUE

  1. Place the right foot on the left thigh
  1. Now place the left foot on the right thigh
  1. Place the hands between the thighs with the palms facing upwards
  1. Concentrating on the tip of the nose, keep the tongue pressed on the upper teeth
  1. Press the chin on your chest, push the air slowly upward
  1. Exhale slowly
  1. Do this 3 times and release the chin on your chest and tongue pressed on the upper teeth

2. IN PADMA ASANA, NEXT
SHEETHALEE KUMBHAKA
GHERANDA SAMHITA, UPADESHA 5,
VERSES 73 & 74

जिह्वया वायुं आकृष्य उदरे पूरयेत् शनैः ।
क्षणं च कुम्भकं कृत्वा नाशाभ्यां रेचयेत् पुनः ॥

सर्वदा साधयेत् योगी शीतली कुम्भकं शुभम् ।
अजीनं कफ-पित्तं च नैव तस्य प्रजायते ॥

Jihvayaa Vaayum Aakrushya Udare Poorayet Shanaihi |
Kshanam Cha Kumbhakam Krutvaa Naasaabhyaam Re-
chayet Punaha || 5.73 ||

Sarvadaa Saadhayet Yogee Sheethalee-
kumbhakam Shubham |
Ajeernam Kapha-Pittam Cha Naiva Tasya
Prajaayathe || 5.74 ||

TRANSLATION

Draw in the air through the mouth (with lips contracted and tongue thrown out), and fill the stomach slowly. Re-tain it there for a short time. Then exhale through both the nostrils. Let the Yogi always practice this Sheethalee Kumbhaka, giver of bliss; by so doing, he will be free from digestion, phlegm and bilious disorders.

TECHNIQUE

1. Continue to sit in same asana

  1. Close the eyes and relax the whole body
  1. Extend the tongue outside the mouth and roll the sides of the tongue up so that it forms a tube
  1. Inhale slowly through the tongue and fill the abdo men slowly
  1. At the end of inhalation, roll the tongue in, close the mouth
  1. Retain it there for a short time
  1. Then exhale through both the nostrils
  1. Do this for 21 minutes

3. IN PADMA ASANA, NEXT
SEETHKAAREE PRAANAAYAAMA
HATHA PRADEEPIKAA, UPADESHA 4, VERSE 43

सीत्कां दद्यात् सदा वक्त्रे घ्राणेनैव विसर्जयेत् ।
एवमभ्यास योगेन कामदेवो द्वितीयकः ॥

Seethkaam dadyaath sadaa Vaktre Ghraanenaiva Visarjayet | Evam Abhyaasa-Yogena Kaamadevo Dviteeyakaha ||4.43||

TRANSLATION

By drawing the breath in through the mouth, make a hissing sound, without opening the mouth, and exhale through the nose. By practicing this, one becomes a sec-ond Kaamadevatha (god of love).

TECHNIQUE

  1. Stay in same asana
  1. Press the lower and upper teeth together and sepa rate the lips as much as comfortable
  1. Breath in slowly through the gaps of the teeth
  1. Listen to the sound of the breath as the air is being drawn in
  1. Close the mouth at the end of the inhalation
  1. Exhale slowly through the nose
  1. Do this for 7 minutes IN PADMA ASANA, NEXT-

4. UJJAAYEE KUBHAKA KUMBHAKA PADDHATHI, VERSES 131 & 132

Mukham Niyamya Naadeebhyaam Aakrushyaasum Niyo-
jayeth |
Kundalee-Paarshvayoho Pashchaath Kumbhayeth
Udharasthitham ||131||

Rechayeth Idayaa Vaayum Gachchan Thishthan Yadhaa
Chareth |
Ujjaayee-Kumbhakaha Prokthaha Shivenaakhila-Vedhinaa
||132||

TRANSLATION One should inhale through both the nostrils and closing the mouth and retain the breath along the Kundalini and exhale through the left nostril. This is the Ujjaayee Kumbhaka explained by Shiva.

TECHNIQUE

  1. Close your Mouth
  1. Inhale through both the nostrils
  1. Hold as long as you can judiciously
  1. Exhale slowly through the left nostril
  1. Do this 21 times

END OF KRIYA