do we have to quit tea?

[Guest guest]

I used to regular meditation in the past, after a while i have started again,

since i started i am seeing a difference that iam loosing my temper very

easily,what might be the reason?i drink two cups of tea everyday,shall i quit

tea? please mail me and guide me coz iam loosing my temper easily and having

negetive thoughts in my mind since i started meditating;

 

thanks

Raj

 

Rebecca <montana_diva wrote:

http://www.spiritproject.com/medicus/mudras/ is a great site I found

after you told me about the shankh mudra. You will need IE to view

the jave script for the gifs as FireFox can not read the script.

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Raj,

 

It' pretty hard to meditate and not have your limitations rise up to the

surface. The fact that you are experiencing strong emotion (losing your

temper) after meditating is a sign that things are beginning to move and come

up to be let go of...so that is a natural outcome of a meditation practice.

 

People may meditate to feel more relaxed or to feel less anger or whatever it

might be that they are wanting, but sometimes we think these limitations will

just disappear if we begin to meditate....but unfortunately, we have to

experience it all before it can "disappear" and our ability to let it go as we

experience it, determines whether it disappears or hangs around for a while

longer.

 

Learning to let go and witness with neutrality our inner experience is a

skill. It doesn't form overnight. We have to cultivate it within ourselves

through our practice.

 

Ideally, you'd want to try to apply your meditative mind (the ability to be

neutral without reaction, without getting caught up in emotions as they rise

and fall) to your experiences outside of meditation, where you feel yourself

losing your temper.

 

You can also make it your intention to release some of the emotion that is

pent up inside of you that is surfacing as "losing my temper", during your

meditation, rather than trying to witness it and be non-reactionary to it etc

etc once you step out onto the street to go about your day. It's harder to do

it on the run, if it isn't a strong skill in your pocket.

 

Ideally, you want to be able to apply your meditative mind to every aspect of

your day...but the learning begins with being able to do it, within the frame

work of your meditation first...then you can branch out form there.

 

So no, I don't think, not drinking tea will help. I think you just have to

go about the business of releasing pent up emotion through your

meditations....journalling is also a good tool for that.

 

All Light,

Sat Sangeet kaur

 

 

 

 

 

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