Pranayama- The gift of life

When everything fails, I turn to pranayama.  When everything fails me, Pranayama embraces me and provides me the soothing solution.

I suffered a huge ever-present headache for three days, I consumed two panadols one after another. I consumed a third one the next morning. It didn't make a difference. The pain was gnawing through the right side of my head, circulating through my jaws, my teeth, my eyes, the skin on my skull, my neck, it was omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, a life of it's own, terrible. I forgot how it was to be normal, I lay supine with my eyes covered, the blinds drawn, the darkness provided some respite.

Finally I remembered, why didn't I try pranayama, and I did it for ten minutes, felt the pain ebbing away. During some breathing cycles, I was in a painless state, a miracle, a hallucination, what was this?

Mudra pranayama hits the nail right on its head, I maintained that mudra for hours after, it stayed by me as my nurse, and nursed me back to health.

And I thanked God, to have birthed me as part of this wonderful culture which gifted me the secret of pranayama, that I turn to as a last resort when everything eludes me.