31st August 2010
Ignited Child!
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Herman Melville
Earlier I mentioned that we can live without food for a few months, but we cannot live without water even for a few days. But how long we can live without breathing? In a few minutes we will die!
Yoshiro Nakamatsu is a Japanese inventor who claims to hold the world's record number of inventions with over 3000! Even Thomas Alva Edison and Albert Einstein owned only a little over a thousand patterns. Yoshiro Nakamatsu's inventions include the basic technology for the floppy discs, the CD, the DVD, the digital watch, the taxicab meter etc. He was born in 1928 and he says his goal is to live up to 144 years! He was awarded the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for Nutrition. He is also nick named as the Thomas Edison of Japan!
You may be wondering why I am writing about him!
He believes that the brain function is substantially enhanced when you hold the breath for a long duration. He goes to swimming, remains under water with a special note pad and pen and swims as long as he can. He claims that he got some of his breakthrough ideas when he was swimming under water and wrote down the same in the special pad and pen that he carried!
The ancient sages of India practiced and propagated pranayama which is in principle breath control. By inhaling deeply and fast and exhaling slowly, they were able to substantially increase their focus and concentration. Research very clearly confirms that the functioning of the brain is substantially increased by increased supply of oxygen to the brain.
Are you curious to know how the minds of the children be ignited by just controlling the breathing?
N C Sridharan and Radha Sridharan
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