Watch how you breath

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NEW DELHI, September 22: Watch how you are breathing because the health and growth of both your body and mind depends on it. The ancient Sanskrit word for this kind of inward self-watching is "Vipashyana". That is the concept on which the drugless cure as well as body and mind building system of Mr SatyaNarayan Goenka is based.

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Talking to reporters today he said the technique had been tried in three major experiments in the country, one at a village in Bihar under the advice of the late Acharya Vinoba Bhave to see the impact on children, another at Jaipur to study its effect on criminals serving jail sentences and the third under the supervision of research psychiatrists of Benaras Hindu University to evaluate its results.

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In all these cases it had been found that the system of control led and relaxed breathing with inward concentration on one's own body and mind helped bring overall physical and spiritual improve ment.

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Mr Goenka, once a leading bu nessman and industrialist in Burm has now taken to a mission training men, women and childi in several countries in this tech que of better living through me tative breathing and has held hu dreds of ten- day camps in sever cities and towns of India and for ign countries. He held a demor tration lecture at Modern Scho this evening which was attende by a large number of men an women who were attracted by his system.

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He has named his movemen "Vipassana"" with a slight modifica tion of the ancient Sanskrit wor! and says it is "to see things as they really are". It provides insight to develop creativity, will power, concentration, memory, intuition, mental vision and dynamic action. "It lets us experience the ecstacy of action rather than agony of reactions" he said. He will hold a series of camps in Jaipur, Kathmandu and Calcutta. He has returned recently from the US, the UK and Australia after holding such camps