Once I realized what was going on (a mantra-buzz blissy kind of addiction) I dropped it and never went back. I needed it before work, and I craved it as soon as I could on arriving home in the evening. What disturbed me about TM was how I became slowly addicted to it. It soothes me but it also stimulates startling thoughts which I do not remember upon waking from my stupor, as often happens in dreams. Nowadays, sometimes by habit the mantra rolls in my head when I am exhausted and collapsed on the couch from a long day. I luckily had a few thousand dollars saved up to rest my mind and NOT practice TM before my life started back up (which had been a struggle for me for about a year). I'd get headaches on the left side of my head, but I was also turning in to a madman, not remembering things I would say or do. I had a very bad time by the end of my time at the university. YOGA HAS SHUNNED HYPERVENTILATION, AND HAS USED BHASTRIKA PRANAYAMA ONLY TO SHIFT THE DOMINANT NOSTRIL (. He has PATENTED this Sudharshan Kriya ( SO HUM hyperventilation ) by trying to rehash Yogic pranayama exercises like Bhastrika and Kapalabhati. Clinically hyperventilation has been used either to activate the EEG in order to identify epileptic. Imaging during Sudarshan Kriya, there is a large body of data on voluntary hyperventilation in humans, mechanical ventilation in brain injured patients, animal models of hyperventilation under anesthesia, and in vitro preparations of hippocampal slices. The author suggests a neurophysiological hypothesis for the mechanism of sudarshan kriya, with adequate empirical content to enable testing. Sudarshan kriya accomplishes this through a systematic daily practice of specifically altered breathing, as developed by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Art of Living Foundation. I was told that my negativity is releasing, satva is increasing, guru is. For first 15 days, just sit straight, breathe normally and observe breathing for 3 minutes.
2) Do cardio excercises as rightly told by Parth. I dropped out of the AOL course and decided to do some research about this SK practise. A person hyperventilating will often experience lightheadedness, blurred vision, muscle spasms of hands and feet, a general feeling of being unwell, fainting and loss of consciousness. [Sudarshan Kriya is not hyperventilation. Transcendental Meditation Negative Side Effects