

Related: Tibetan Medicine: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Health and Healing But generally speaking, over a long period of time, working with the breath is effective at cutting through all types of neurotic tendencies, because it brings the wind energy into balance. Of course, change will not happen immediately. And in every single case the mind can be thoroughly pacified and calmed through working with the breath. When putting things in the context of wind energy, all of these emotions are simply an expression of imbalanced wind energy. As a result, the mind becomes clear and we feel relaxed and even-tempered. When the breath is calm and relaxed, we notice that the body’s energy is also calm, especially in the areas of the abdomen, lungs, and chest. If we examine the body and mind carefully, we notice a connection between the breath and how we feel. Wind energy is also the physical rush of energy that accompanies all of our feelings and sensations. Thus, it is more than simply the experience of inhalation and exhalation.

However, wind energy not only supports our ordinary bodily systems but also quite literally drives our emotions. We may think of the breath as something that is simply related to the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide and that keeps us alive. Lung describes not only the breath, the movement of air w e call wind, and the basic atmosphere around us, but it has the additional meaning of “wind energy.” In the Tibetan Buddhist teachings, the element of air and the breath are tied together through the word lung (Tib., rlung), which is embedded with several layers of meaning.
