the formula for stress is i say too much to do too little time and no energy
healthy emotion is that which stays only as long as you draw a line on the water
we are ignoring one important aspect when we talk about emotions
that our emotions are linked to the rhythms of our breath
thank you for your work in helping us to see ourselves and others more beautifully and more
holy and with greater levels of acceptance from your perspective what does emotional
health look like in turbulent times we need to bring people to be more conscious about their own
emotions their own self and what is that they can do here i would say we are ignoring one important
aspect when we talk about emotions that our emotions are linked to the rhythms of our breath
neither at home nor at school we are taught how to manage our emotions it's normal to
get agitated it's normal to get upset but how long can you be upset it's not in your control
but if we know something about our own breathing patterns and how it can impact our mind
and we can be in charge of our emotions it really brings so much empowerment in our self and
makes us so centered second are we idealize oh i should never get angry i usually see moms feeling
so upset when they get upset with the kids at home and they get upset because they got upset
you see and then the cycle goes on there is a sense of acceptance about all these emotions
no emotion is good or bad they are there they make you human being it's emotions that makes us
alive that makes us different from other objects now how to channel the negative emotion how to
transform that into positive emotion this is a challenge and here i would say our breath work
and our broadened awareness and look at our own life and how we have handled such emotions before
can help us to be more centered now i would like to say something here about different emotions
connected with different chakras in our own body you know each emotion has a particular sensation
in a particular part of the body and this in the yogic science we call the chakras
the seven chakras in the body actually there are 109 chakras chakras are energy points of the 109
these seven are more important for example the naval chakra the solar plexus
is for jealousy generosity joy and then greed all these four you know four emotions you find the
sensation there no fear anger and hatred they're all in one area that is the heart chakra someone
who has hatred they have no love and no fear if you are afraid then there is no hate nor love
because it's the same emotion which expresses in one pattern or other they are linked it's the
same energy life force which it gets expressed as hatred you find all these nexulites and the
militants you know they have so much hatred but why that hated because they have love also then
same amount of love also they have and fear these three things and then you go to the throat chakra
this is where you find grief and gratefulness
when you feel grateful your throat chokes and when you're so sad there's some sensation that arises
in the throat similarly in between the eyebrows the third eye point this is anger and alertness
you will see if you are alert at that moment anger is not expressed but if you are angry at that
moment there is no alertness these two opposite expression of a same energy is in our body and
this goes up and down so you can't label this is bad this is good it's one energy one electricity
one life force now anger and alertness if you often you find people who are very alert
they are prone to get angry more that particular spot in their you know body is more
activated similarly when the energy reaches to the top of the head there is
colorfulness a blissfulness there is a sense of total peace
and tranquility a sense of oneness with everybody because you feel that everyone belongs to you
in india grandmothers used to safe child is getting upset or sir what did you feed him today
so you know your food impacts your mind someone is doing brilliant work what did they feed you today
so vata pitta of ayurveda describes a lot about behavior tendencies of people connected to
the doshas the balances in the body you know how the
doshas function through them so if someone is high in pitta you give them
mexican food or some chili and then that's it you can expect some firecrackers coming back
healthy emotion is that which stays only as long as you draw a line on the water
have you noticed the kids are angry and or they're crying and the tears are still on their cheek
and the skin starts smiling in no time you know they'll smile immediately for an adult
for them to smile back when they are upset i don't know how long it takes maybe months so
this emotional resilient is in built in us i find two main things in the whole world when i see
in some part of the world we express our emotion a lot we keep oh i love you i love you honey and all
that stuff a lot but then somewhere then you turn to be diabetic and you can't use the honey also
on the other side of the planet in some countries you bury your emotions so much
that you never say the word i love you to anybody you know your emotions are
not expressed you will find it in mediation can treat the women they don't express their emotions
and so that becomes a huge pressure and we build up the pressure in the mind and then it
gives rise to many psychological and physiological problems the middle path is what is essential here
and that is possible if we become aware of the life from a broader context what do you say so yes
well i i mean absolutely when we suppress emotions there's an amplification effect
you know when you're trying not to think about something you think about that thing
it's fascinating to me that we live very much in a society that seems to
encourage emotional suppression and what i hear you saying so beautifully is
there's a cultural narrative around emotions that actually leads us to lose our way
from ourselves leads us to become descented and uncentered i wonder you know what is that
that thing it sounds like you're speaking to an essence of self that is wise and i'm wondering
if you can talk talk about that see there is something which is beyond emotion in all of us
our spirit emotions are changing no emotion can be the same all through you know their
intensity changes their their expression changes when a couple fall in love with each other they
they express their love a lot and then as time goes and their expression
takes a little back seat i suppose and then the whole thing starts you know you
don't allow me and do you really love me all these questions but you didn't buy me flowers
all those stories are coffee in bed but there is something that's uh that doesn't change in us
but we don't pay attention to that aspect of our life yeah our thoughts our body changes our
thoughts change our emotions change but to realize the change there need to be some reference point
which is not changing because of its presence that something is present in us that is not changing
we are able to notice the changes as well being in touch with that aspect of us that doesn't change
the self is what is meditation and meditation
doesn't make you dull and dry it helps you to enjoy the emotions better instead of getting
embroiled in it it helps you to witness and watch the emotions and be with as i'm talking
in your mind there is a dialogue going on are you aware of that title you say yes yes or no
no there is agreement or disagreement we are going through that right are we aware of this similarly
you see someone who is and they are pushing your buttons and you get so upset annoyed and something
is happening a sensation is arising inside of you are you aware of those sensations if we are aware
then we filter whether to act on it or not act on it but those who do not have this filter they end
up in the jail they too got all these emotions and they just acted with from those emotions
and you know they feel so helpless if you interact with the so-called criminals you find
in all those culprits there is a victim crying for help because they just out of an emotional
outburst they did something which they were not wanting to do in fact
so how can we channelize our emotion this energy this is possible only when we are able to take
a little step back from the abortions and then give a proper channel to those emotions
instead of shunning them down or shutting it off or getting dragged by it you are able to handle it
for your advantage yeah i think that's such a powerful perspective the that that's psychological
capacity to helicopter above your emotion one of the things that i often think of in my work is how
when we are sad we'll often say something like i am sad you know i am angry that language that
we use is so powerful because when we say something like i am it's almost like we are
defining ourselves by the emotion 100% of me is sad and there's no space for anything else