EXHALATION IS DEATH!
When you place your awareness on exhalation, whatever can die in you will leave your system, your inner space.
It will leave your system, and you will realize that something that can die can never be part of you. If you are identifying yourself with something that can die, that identification will be automatically disconnected.
When you realize this, naturally you will feel connected to that which can never die.
That which never dies is your very being. You will realize you are that which can never die, you are the unchanging Consciousness.
This is a very powerful technique that can give you tremendous freedom from fear.
Whenever you are attacked by fear, just sit back and chant this mantra.
The silent intonation of this hamsah mantra* will awaken you to the Truth that your being never dies.
You will suddenly see that the fear of losing your wealth, your limbs or your health, of losing your near and dear ones, or the fear of unknown - all these fears will disappear. You will be liberated from fear.
This technique can also be practiced at times when you are not facing fear, while you are sitting, talking, walking, eating, even while you are sleeping. Understand, when you constantly intone this mantra, it will gradually become ajapa japa* or a spontaneous vibration in you.
When the hamsah mantra* becomes *ajapa in you, you become a Paramahamsa! You remain spontaneously in the space of enlightened consciousness.