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-'''Prāṇāyāma''' (devanāgarī: प्राणायाम) is a [[Sanskrit]] term composed of two words. The first is ''[[prāṇa]]'', and refers to the life force or vital energy, and also to the breath. The second word can be ''ayāma'' (beginning with short ''a'': "extension", "expansion") or āyāma (beginning with long ''a'': "stopping", "restraining"). Therefore, the composed term can be translated as either ''extension'' or ''stopping'' of the life force or breath.
-Traditionally, in the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] view, its unsupervised practice is regarded as dangerous. For example, [[Koot Hoomi|Master K.H.]] wrote that [[Allan Octavian Hume|A. O. Hume]] had, "by the injudicious practice of pranayam, developed in himself to some extent [[mediumship]] — is tainted for life with it".<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 102 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 349.</ref>
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