Mental ill and moola bandha from the book moola bandha the master key

Moola bandha is therefore an important tool in the
treatment of physical diseases of the lower abdomen e.g.
digestive ailments and sexual disorders. Because the body
and mind are inextricably interlinked, ‘as in the body, so in
the mind,’ an effect on one cannot pass unnoticed by the
other. Accordingly, moola bandha has the immediate effect
of creating a deep sense of mental relaxation, thereby
relieving most mental and psychosomatic disorders which
are the direct or indirect effect of stress, tension and anxiety.
As a mental relaxant, moola bandha has been found
extremely useful in the treatment of such mental disorders
A as depression, neurosis, some phobias, hysteria and mania.
Little experimental evidence exists to substantiate the elfects
of moola bandha on psychosis. However, because of its
effects on the brain and by virtue of the fact that moola
bandha is effective in the treatment of both mania and
depression, it has proved useful in correcting the extreme
moods characteristic of manic-depressive psychosis, and in
some cases of schizophrenia, especially in the early stages.

Bandhas and granthis From the book Moola bandha the master key

To further understand bandhas we must extend our
view so as to see them not only as locks but also as removers
of locks or blockages, in the form of physical and mental
impurities. According to the scriptures there are granthis or
psychic knots, located at mooladhara, anahata and ajna
chakras. Granthis represent blockages in man’s awareness
of himself at the different levels of consciousness; they
obscure the true image of man’: essential nature. Tradi-
tionally, bandhas were prescribed as one of the most effective
means of untying these knots or blockages, existing as
tension, anxieties, repressions and unresolved conflicts,
thereby allowing us to rediscover our true nature.
The force generated from the bandhas may be likened
to that of increased pressure in a tube. Imagine a piece of
tubing resting vertically to the ground. This tube represents
sushumna nadi (the main pranic energy channel which
runs up the spine).
1. Moola bandha represents the sealing of the lowest portion
of the tube, thus preventing the downward motion of
prana. It stimulates energy in mooladhara, awakening
kundalini shakti.
2. jalandhan handha seals off the top portion of the tube.
Prana is now locked within this tube.
3. Uddiyana bandha completes maha bandha. It further
increases pranic pressure by stimulating the solar plexus
(manipura chakra), filling and expanding the closed tube.
Thus, when maha bandha is performed, prana is
compressed in sushumna. The locks prevent its downward
and upward movement at the same time stimulating energy.
Release of the bandhas flushes prana through the whole
body, and as prana is by nature vital, life-giving energy, the
body is relaxed, toned and rejuvenated. The granthis can
then be pierced and untied. expanding consciousness.