Process (or cognitive) theories of motivation focus on conscious human decision processes as an explanation of motivation. The process theories are concerned with determining how individual behavior is energized, directed, and maintained in the specifically willed and self-directed human cognitive processes.
Pranayama is the perfect control of the life-currents through control of breath, and is the process by which we understand the secret of prana and manipulate it.hen the breath is expired, it is rechaka, the first kind of pranayama. When the breath is drawn in, it is the second, termed pooraka. When the breath is suspended, it is the third kind, called kumbhaka, or retention of breath. Kumbhaka increases the life-span of an individual.
Isvara designates a level of Cosmic Consciousness that is very close to the Western idea of God. Pranidhana means uninterrupted devotion or Self-offering.. Isvara Pranidhana, therefore, is the state of permanent communion with the Cosmic, Supreme Consciousness, and of total surrender to the Cosmic Will. However, it is very important to understand here that by surrender we are not simply assuming a posture of resignation.