"Again tantra cares the least, but yoga does value pranayama or breathing techniques a lot. And let me tell you all before you take an action on it. Right?" - I made Eva postpone her program of practicing what she learned till she learned it full.
"Right!" - She immediately agreed.
"Now it's meant to let body breathe right, which it otherwise doesn't. But in its aggressive enthusiasm, yoga resorted to MAKE body breathe right rather than LET it breathe so. It tries to force the body breathe like a bellow through its various breathing techniques of pranayama that it invented for the purpose. Pathetically, it does them for a short duration of time and the rest of the day falls back to the same faulty breathing again! Tantra never resorts to such forceful techniques against the basic human nature." - I tried to give the gist of the whole thing that this fourth step of yoga, namely pranayama or breathing techniques, was.
"Why does the body stop breathing right?" - She went inquisitive.
"It never asked this question, which it must have done in the very first place. Tantra did. Since humanity evolved on the lines of suppressing almost all the natural drives including defecation, urination and sex; it resorted to toilet training and abstinence from free and natural sex." I said.
"How did it affect the breathing?" - Eva was very logical in her approach, which was why we had come so close so fast.
"Humanity contracted its solar plexus to achieve the said controls contracting thoracic diaphragm in turn, which was where the room for the lungs to expand while breathing was as designed by the nature. If you don't get room to expand, you are certainly bound to get suffocated. Aren't you?" - I explained in a pure biological terminology.
"Does it mean I too have kept my thoracic diaphragm contracted?" - She touched her solar plexus just below her ribs. It was flat. Then she touched mine that had a convex curve as it was protruded outside providing room for lungs to breathe freely.
She kept sensing the protrusion of my stomach with my breathing lungs raising it up and down above my naval exactly below the rib cage whereas below the naval she found it all flat like the abdomen of a leopard. Just to play the game of life healthy!
I couldn't sense any such protrusion on hers over there.
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