The Yoga of the Nine Emotions
The Tantric Practice of Rasa Sadhana
(Sprache: Englisch)
A guide to changing negative emotions and promoting happiness using traditional Tantric and Ayurvedic practices.
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A guide to changing negative emotions and promoting happiness using traditional Tantric and Ayurvedic practices.
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Rasas are the essence of our emotions that exist in both the body and the mind. The Tantric tradition recognizes 9 Rasas that represent our basic emotions: love, humor, wonder, courage, calmness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. Those who practice Rasa Sadhana learn to overcome negative emotions in order to pursue better health, enhanced spiritual growth, and enduring happiness. Our emotions are continuously affected by the interplay of our senses, the elements, food, and the life force in our body. In The Yoga of the Nine Emotions, Peter Marchand offers many practical physiological and philosophical tools from Tantric and Ayurvedic traditions that can help readers change their emotional patterns. He explains the nature and purpose of each Rasa and how we can strengthen or weaken one Rasa through another. He also offers Ayurvedic cooking guidelines and daily routines for balancing sensory input and strengthening emotional health, including fasting from negative emotions as well as how to energize positive ones. As we master our emotions through the practice of Rasa Sadhana, we gain true control of our lives and our relationships with others.
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from Chapter Nine Raudra: Anger
When expectations are not fulfilled, the ego may feel that it has been neglected or treated incorrectly; this forms the basis for Anger. In Anger, the ego becomes extremely dominant. The mind follows the ego, though its attention may wander. The intellect may try to give soothing advice, but if overruled by the ego it will supply information that supports the Anger, such as the memory of earlier unfulfilled expectations.
Anger is also based in the suppression of feelings. Some people harbor Anger over one particular subject all of their lives. The repetition of angry thoughts can work like a mantra that over time comes to dominate one's entire being. Similarly societies may keep Anger over generations, such as in the wars that have existed between some countries over the centuries.
Anger in the Body
In Anger, the eyes are opened wide, while in Calmness the eyes are closed. Eyes can express more Anger than words. Anger can cause the jaws, the hands, or the whole body to become tight and tense. The entire body becomes hot, particularly the hands. The breathing pattern becomes fast and shallow and the sounds become harsh and loud.
The element of the Anger Rasa is fire. Pitta dominated people are easier to anger than others. Anger can be a purifier that cleans negative emotional patterns. The burning yogic fire that comes out of the third eye of Shiva is also caused by Anger. However, Anger is only beneficial for a very short time, when it burns the toxins created by dissatisfaction and irritation.
If Anger persists for some time, its fire starts eating the system from within, creating mental and bodily diseases. The fire of Anger disturbs pitta and makes the body chemistry become more acidic. This causes problems in joints and muscles, destroys the eyesight, causes cardiovascular disturbances such as heart attacks, and brings illness to the digestive and nervous systems.
Mastering Anger
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By itself, Anger will not stay for a very long time because of the natural changes in body chemistry. So if we do not feed Anger with our thoughts, it will go all by itself.
The best way is to dissolve the Anger the moment it arises, by analyzing the unfulfilled expectation that lies at the basis of it, then shifting to one or more of its enemy Rasas--Joy, Love, or Wonder--if needed, followed by some purification of body chemistry. The second best option is to address the circumstances of the Anger in a non-violent way, if we feel that it is our duty or dharma to counter an injustice. The third best option is to play a role of being angry toward the person who is misbehaving, so that he or she gains a natural understanding that an important line has been crossed. Suppressing Anger is never an option, because it will continue to simmer inside.
While changing our mental attitude, we may also remove the biochemical basis for Anger. This consists of consciously cooling down the fire of Anger:
--Slowly drinking several glasses of cool water (not icy cold) is a sure way to make Anger go. Soft drinks, with a lot of sugar, acids, and often caffeine will not do. They will only increase the excitement.
--Drinking water that has been stored in a silver cup, accumulating lunar energy for a day and night or more, is the very best. As an alternative, non-glazed clay cups may also be used.
--Not taking any sweet or fat and especially fasting for some time is a sure way to deny combustibles to the fire of Anger. Since the feeling of hunger may increase irritability, any food fasting should be combined with exercising Calmness.
--Avoid pungent, salty, sour, and astringent tastes in general
--Avoid alcohol, because it is the best combustible available, heating and drying the body.
--Chewing red or green cardamom will turn the acid biochemistry to alkaline and thus reduce Anger.
--Yogurt and lemons are very g
By itself, Anger will not stay for a very long time because of the natural changes in body chemistry. So if we do not feed Anger with our thoughts, it will go all by itself.
The best way is to dissolve the Anger the moment it arises, by analyzing the unfulfilled expectation that lies at the basis of it, then shifting to one or more of its enemy Rasas--Joy, Love, or Wonder--if needed, followed by some purification of body chemistry. The second best option is to address the circumstances of the Anger in a non-violent way, if we feel that it is our duty or dharma to counter an injustice. The third best option is to play a role of being angry toward the person who is misbehaving, so that he or she gains a natural understanding that an important line has been crossed. Suppressing Anger is never an option, because it will continue to simmer inside.
While changing our mental attitude, we may also remove the biochemical basis for Anger. This consists of consciously cooling down the fire of Anger:
--Slowly drinking several glasses of cool water (not icy cold) is a sure way to make Anger go. Soft drinks, with a lot of sugar, acids, and often caffeine will not do. They will only increase the excitement.
--Drinking water that has been stored in a silver cup, accumulating lunar energy for a day and night or more, is the very best. As an alternative, non-glazed clay cups may also be used.
--Not taking any sweet or fat and especially fasting for some time is a sure way to deny combustibles to the fire of Anger. Since the feeling of hunger may increase irritability, any food fasting should be combined with exercising Calmness.
--Avoid pungent, salty, sour, and astringent tastes in general
--Avoid alcohol, because it is the best combustible available, heating and drying the body.
--Chewing red or green cardamom will turn the acid biochemistry to alkaline and thus reduce Anger.
--Yogurt and lemons are very g
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Yoga of the Nine Emotions “
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
Part One: Rasa Sadhana
1 Nine Rasas
2 Rasas in the Body
3 Body Emotions in Western Science
4 Indian Philosophy and Rasas
Part Two: The Nine Rasas
5 Shringara: Love
6 Hasya: Joy
7 Adbhuta: Wonder
8 Shanta: Calmness
9 Raudra: Anger
10 Veerya: Courage
11 Karuna: Sadness
12 Bhayanaka: Fear
13 Vibhatsa: Disgust
Part Three: Working with Our Rasas
14 Mastering Emotions
15 Rasa Sadhana
16 Balancing Sensory Input
17 Cooking Emotions
18 Daily Routines
19 Emotional Emergencies
Part Four: Our Rasas in Society
20 The Emotional Evolution of Humankind
21 Rasas and Western Science
22 Rasas, Religion, Spirituality, and Yoga
23 Power to the Artists
24 Social Work and Politics
25 Mood Marketing
26 Rasas in Therapy
Conclusion
Sanskrit Glossary
References and Recommended Reading
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Marchand
Peter Marchand is one of the founders of Sanatan Society, a networking organization of the family and students of Harish Johari (1934-1999), a tantric scholar, poet, and artist who authored 12 books, including Chakras and Tools for Tantra. Marchand became a student of Johari in 1983 and teaches Rasa Sadhana and Jnana Yoga in Europe, India, the United States, and Canada. The author of The Yoga of Truth and The Yoga of the Nine Emotions, he lives in Belgium.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Marchand
- 2006, 224 Seiten, Maße: 15,2 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Inner Traditions International
- ISBN-10: 1594770948
- ISBN-13: 9781594770944
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"This guide to mastering your emotions through traditional yogic, Tantric, and Ayurvedic practices is definitely the most fascinating book that I've read in a long while. . . . provides both the information and inspiration to utilize our emotions to promote better health, spiritual growth, and enduring happiness." Timothy Burgin, www.yogabasics.com, Nov 2006
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