Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 4, Issue - 1, 1 July 2019 | Page 5

PRANA: ‘THE ESSENCE OF LIFE AND
WELLNESS’
PRANA, The Sanskrit terms can be roughly translated as the life force or the
life energy. Though closely linked to breath its not synonymous to the air we
breath. Prana is the essence. In essence it is closed to what Chinese called
CHI QI, Polynesians called MANA, Hebrews called RUAH, and Greeks called
PNEUMA.
According to the ancient Indian scriptures prone is the ‘essence of all’, it
permeates ‘All that is’ throughout the cosmos. But for today we will limit our
focus to the prune that refers to the Life Force or the life Energy.
Ancient yogic traditions explained about five (5) basic aspects of prana
referred as “ Punch (five) Vayu (breath/ current/ flow) “ Namely