Cardiovascular and Respiratory Health🔗

The cardiovascular and respiratory systems are two sys-tems that work together very closely and are responsible for a wide array of functions in our body. The cardiovas-cular system contains the heart and blood vessels while the respiratory system contains the lungs, muscles need-ed for breathing, and the passages through which air is transported in and out of the lungs. Asthma, bronchi-tis, and emphysema are prevalent respiratory diseases.

The main function of the respiratory system is to pro-vide the body with oxygen and remove carbon diox-ide and waste products after oxygen has been used. In this function, the respiratory system is dependent on the cardiovascular system which facilitates the distribution, transport and assimilation of these compounds for the respiratory system. For this, the heart functions as the pump, while the blood vessels function as the pathways.

In addition to aiding the respiratory processes, the car-diovascular system also delivers all sorts of substanc-es needed by the cells of our body. Besides transport, other functions of the cardiovascular system are reg-ulating body temperature, maintaining different bal-ances in our body, and facilitating the immune system.

A wide array of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) exists and interferes with the transport of blood to the differ-ent parts of the body. One of the main problems related to CVDs is the clogging of arteries, mainly due to fat de-positing on the walls of blood vessels, restricting the blood flow to the part of the body that is further along the path of the blood vessel. Some of the most common CVDs, heart disease and stroke, are also the most deadly, as these are the leading causes of death worldwide (WHO). Renowned yogi and healer, Paramahamsa Nithyanan-da has stated that India has 600 percent more deaths related to cardiac disease than does the United States.

This booklet contains powerful techniques to aid you in coping with, or the recovery from CVDs and respiratory diseases. These Nithya Kriyas are a series of ancient heal-ing processes developed by Paramahamsa Nithyananda himself. The techniques are based in sacred yoga scrip-tures including the legendary Patanjali Yoga Sutras, as well as the three classic texts that form the base of yoga: Ha-tha Yoga Pradipika, Gheranda Samhita and Shiva Samhita.

According to yogic knowledge the cause of disease is fre-quently of a mental nature, directly or indirectly. In many of his discourses Nithyananda teaches that mental suffer-ing such as fear and depression, are rooted deeply into our biomemory and cause health problems such as car-diovascular disease by lowering the immune system. The process of completion with past pain patterns is essential to overcoming the root causes for these diseases. When worry becomes a habit it can affect any part of the body, causing a number of psychosomatic diseases. This subtle interplay between the body and mind is why it is so import-ant that worry be addressed and removed from the system. If an emotion is handled properly the corresponding chakra (energy hub in the body) functions well, expand-ing it to the size of even a cartwheel! If the emotion is not handled properly the corresponding chakra shrinks to the size of even a coat button, which causes low ener-gy in the system. This low energy ultimately manifests as disease in the mind-body system. Several factors includ-ing childhood problems, societal conditioning, improper habits, physical and emotional injuries, or even just lack of attention affect the energy flow through the chakras.