how many sessions of pranayama yoga do you have to engage in before you notice any benefits?
also, when this happens you can manipulate prana/energy right? so can you change your mind/personality, materialize desires etc?
My earnest advice - please don’t rush it. Prana is energy for sure, but unlike other forms of lesser energy we know (like electricity, atomic) prana is intelligent. Pranayama only implies rejuvenation of body’s prana generators, cleansing prana channels to have better balance with prana, the life-force. What prana has to do, prana does. One cannot manipulate it in the sense of ‘as one would wish’.
Any personality change is a fall-out of the above process. That also changes the definition of desires that one would wish to materialize. Ironically, true regulation of prana would happen only when all desires would vanish. It is erroneous to believe that one can remain materialistic and yet certain practices done over certain timeframe would themselves deliver spiritual results. Hope that is not the case here.
Prana regulation is not a physical prowess, it is spiritual. And that comes on its own terms, schedule and degree of success. Patience is the least that we need to have. Yoga is enough for a lifetime, a lifetime is not enough for yoga.
It’s sensible what Suhas Tambe has written here.
Curious George sent a private message to me with a similar question, my replay was as follows:
Yogis have detected energy centers and pathways throughout the body, if you’re trying to influence energy throughout your system access might best be obtained skillfully perfecting techniques in pranayama since breath operates in conscious/subconscious/unconscious states i.e. you already have voluntary control of your breathing therefore crossing the bridge to subtitles of breath flow may allow control of the other energy centers which are usually considered involuntary. The eight limbs of yoga are known for transformation on many levels, upon closer understanding of one’s true inner nature desire to manifest desires decrease, calamity dissolves, suffering disappears, the world becomes what it is, not what you want it to be, confirmation of what others point to is best done through clarity. Posting this on the main Forum allows others to comment and may be in your best interest.
[QUOTE=CuriousGeorge;80551]how many sessions of pranayama yoga do you have to engage in before you notice any benefits?
also, when this happens you can manipulate prana/energy right? so can you change your mind/personality, materialize desires etc?[/QUOTE]
Curious G, can you please provide with more information on what are you trying to achieve and what pranayama are you working with…