Guest guest Posted July 11, 2001 Report Share Posted July 11, 2001 Can anyone educate me as to why backbending can open up so many emotions? - especially tears<br><br>thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 11, 2001 Report Share Posted July 11, 2001 Perhaps backbending opens up the heart? Certainly, backbends are especially intensive postures, so the emotions they set free may be particularly strong.<br><br>Backbends do have their following of enthusiasts. I can't say that I'm much of a backbending freak myself, though. In fact, the most frequent emotion I feel when bowing up into urdhva dhanurasana is a sense of nausea - due to the extension of the liver. Maybe.<br><br>As for the tears - what really makes me want to cry: that I'm not yet able to drop backward into urdhva dhanurasana from a standing position (rather than pressing myself up from the floor), because that's really something I would like I can do one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 11, 2001 Report Share Posted July 11, 2001 Wow that sounds really intense. Nothing that profound ever seems to happen in my practice, backbends included. It sounds like a really healthy, cathartic, resolving thing - clearing away old emotional toxins.<br><br>I guess the way we live, office work etc., encourages bad posture and a closure of the heart centre which gets 'cracked' open to use one arch criminal's phrase.<br><br>Namaste<br>MrM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 11, 2001 Report Share Posted July 11, 2001 Backbending opens the heart chakra and thus can bring up some intense emotions. There is a book that I have at home and will look up the author's name and the title...<br><br><br>El Senor Pinche Wey, Ole! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2001 Report Share Posted July 13, 2001 gracias senor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2001 Report Share Posted July 13, 2001 There is a school of thought which says that emotions are physically stored in the muscles, hence the saying "that person is a pain in the neck". Given the physical release that muscles go through in the practice of yoga the same may be said for the emotional release. As for backbends, I vaguely remember reading about elements of trust and fear being addressed emotionaly when doing backbends. It sounds as though you have made quite a breakthrough with your practice. Good luck<br><br>Dale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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