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=What is Breath?=
The true breathing is not merely the inspiration and expiration from the lungs which is merely the mechanism of it, but a drawing in of the universal energy of Prana into every cell of the body.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sankhya-and-yoga#p21</ref><center>~</center>
...the physical being is made up of two elements, the physical and the vital, the body which is the apparent instrument and the basis, and the life energy, ''prāṇa'', which is the power and the real instrument. Both of these instruments are now our masters. We are subject to the body, we are subject to the life energy; it is only in a very limited degree that we can, though souls, though mental beings, at all pose as their masters. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p5</ref>
==Control of the Breath==
... ''prāṇāyāma'', the regulated direction and arrestation by exercises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p5</ref><center>~</center>According to Sri Aurobindo,.. true movement behind respiration is the same as the one governing electrical and magnetic fields; it is what the ancient yogis used to call Vayu, the Life-Energy. The breathing exercises (''prāṇāyāma'') are simply one system (among others) for acquiring mastery over Vayu which eventually enables you to be free from gravitation and gives certain powers know to the ancients: the power to be extremely light or extremely heavy, very big or very tiny (''garimā'', ''laghimā'', ''mahimā'', ''aṇimā''). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/20-may-1953#p39</ref>
=Why is doing Pranayama Helpful?=