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Breathing Easy Pranayam and

Pollution in Cities
How to pursue spirituality when each breath is a struggle? Sadhguru explains, wherever your
life happens best, thats where you should be. Dont worry, the city will not collapse without
you!

Blog Home Sadhguru Master's Words Nov 17, 2016 | 0 Comments

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Q: I suffer from asthma, nose polyps and sinus. These are causing obstacles for
my spiritual pursuit. What can I do?

Sadhguru: If your body becomes a problem, then it will take your entire
lifes focus. When you have an asthmatic attack and you cannot breathe,
nothing else matters, you just want to breathe. This is so with anything,
whether it is pain or any kind of disease. If the body is not taken care of
properly, it will draw your entire attention. Everything that you have will
go towards maintaining it.

Keeping this body well is not about beauty or flaunting it in front of

someone else. It is just so that this body does not become an obstacle in
your life. This should be a stepping stone. If this becomes an obstacle, it
is a big obstacle to surmount. It is not that you cannot be spiritual if you
are asthmatic, but it takes a lot more. At the same time, it is a good
reminder of what troubles the body can bring. So when asthma is still
there, you must realize in some way that this is the nature of the body
if not today, tomorrow it is going to give you trouble. Once you realize
this, the longing to transcend it also becomes very big.

In the city or out?

Of course, we want a solution for the asthma. If you were staying at the
ashram, there are things that you can do which will fix it in maybe a few
months. But if you are living in a city, most Indian cities are asthma. If
you are in Delhi, this is the only place where you can see the air! If you A woman should not
already have a health problem, a city is not the place for you. It is time to have to fit into a mans
move at least to the countryside. Oh, but what do I do? I have a job. world. Half the world
What do you do with a job if you are wheezing morning and evening? A should anyway be hers.
little less money in the village but breathing well is better in my opinion.

You will see, if you live in a place where

there is fresh air, twenty-five to thirty
Sadhguru
percent of your asthma will go down.
You must do your Once we remove the problem on the
Todays Mystic Quote

life where it happens outside, handling the problem inside

becomes a possibility. If we do not take
best for you, not away what aggravates this and try to
work with it, for example if you do
because you can live pranayam in a seriously polluted place,
you are asking for more trouble.
better than
somebody If you move away from the city, your
city is not going to collapse. So you do
somewhere or not have to worry about the city. But
because you will your problem is, you are in a race and
you do not want to give up the race.
make a few bucks Suppose somebody else wins? If you are
asthmatic, anyway they are going to win
more somewhere the race! At least breathing easy must
happen, if nothing else. Just inhalation
else. and exhalation at least this much
pleasure every human being deserves.
But unfortunately, this is happening in
all major cities it is hard to breathe.

The millions of people who live in cities have not gathered in one place
because they have fallen in love with each other. It is just greed, the stock
market is there, industry is there, something else is there. The world can
run without you. If you are having difficulty breathing in a city, it is good
to move out. Oh, what is Sadhguru talking? Does he know what all we
are doing in the city? You are doing so many things except life, that
much I know.

Many years ago, when we first wanted to set up the Isha Yoga Center in
India, we looked all over southern India for land. Then we decided it had
to be in Coimbatore, and we started looking all over Coimbatore. They
showed me all kinds of places, some of them almost inside Coimbatore
city. It would have been so much easier to build the Center there, and it
would have become so much more popular if it had been in the city.
When I finally got drawn to the Velliangiri foothills and said, this is it,
people said, This is crazy. Who is going to come to this place? I said,
It is okay but this is where we need to set this up. They thought I had
lost my mind and some of them left. Now they desperately want to come,
of course.

You must do your life where it happens best for you, not because you can
live better than somebody somewhere or because you will make a few
bucks more somewhere else. Just because we like the mountain, we
cannot take a coconut tree and plant it on top of the mountain. It will not
survive. A coconut tree has to be at the foothills. But the bamboo is up
there because every life flourishes best when the atmosphere that is
needed for that life is there. For human life, you need some oxygen to
breathe, not carbon. If you understand that, then you can fix this. If you
take away the outside problem, we can easily help you out of the inside
problem.

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