Guest guest Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 is there any exercises that I can do to help with my emotions tried t one of the healing meditation exercises I found in three and this didnt help with my emotions I am not sure but it made it worse. Also would like to know of course of any meditations I can do to help control my emotions during this time of the month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Sat Nam catlady, anything we try to resist and control will inevitably grow in power and become out of control. It is perfectly normal for women to feel more emotional at certain times of the month. Taking the time to quietly sit with your emotions, with respect, acceptance and kindness, is one way to honour yourself as a person and a woman. If you feel particularly stressed around your menses, the best solution is regular exercise the whole month long. This will lessen or eliminate cramps, it will strengthen your body to deal with stress so you don't feel the need to act on all your emotions, and it will also help you work stress out of your body. Emotions are not "bad" (even the ones we don't like), they just are. Any emotion will pass with time, if you find a gentle way to release your emotions that isn't harmful to others they will pass more quickly (dancing your emotions, drawing or painting them, singing, crying, yelling into a pillow until your anger reveals what is really underneath...anger always covers up fear, pain, sadness or frustration and soon becomes tears when allow to run it's course). Now, accepting one's emotions doesn't mean it's acceptable to dump them on others...that can be an act of aggression. However if we allow our emotions, if we understand that they are like the weather that changes all the time, we can come to understand ourselves much more deeply and learn to cultivate the emotional states that we most enjoy. Being a woman has been greatly denigrated in our culture, honour yourself as a person and a woman by respecting that at certain times of the month you may need to retreat to look after your own emotional needs and inner space. Menses, and being sensitive, is not a curse but a gift of creation and creativity. Honour this within yourself blessings on your journey ovasoul Kundaliniyoga, "catlady496" <catlady496 wrote: > > is there any exercises that I can do to help with my emotions tried t > one of the healing meditation exercises I found in three and this > didnt help with my emotions I am not sure but it made it worse. Also > would like to know of course of any meditations I can do to help > control my emotions during this time of the month > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 sat nam dear cat lady, for a long time i was struggling with my emotions too - not just around my period, but whenever. i posted here several months ago about a 40 day kirtan kriya i did, and how very, desperately sad it made me. at that time and since, our dear gururattana has pointed out that all we have to do is accept our emotions, whatever they are. i'm sure i won't phrase it the way she would, but the way i understood her was to just accept them, love them, allow them to come, and allow them to go. especially if it is "pms," of course you know: in a few days it will be over! wahe guru! isn't it wonderful, the sadness/anger/bitchiness comes, and then it goes!! currently i am doing another 40 day kirtan kriya, to which i added a sodarshan chakra kriya after a couple of weeks (groan! don't ask!!). in the past weeks i have had the most severe mood swings of my life. i'm sure a psychiatrist would prescribe mood drugs to regulate them. but this time i am armed with the good advice: just love, accept and honor the feelings as teachings, and then let them go!! "this is not the final feeling" is a line from a poem a yoga teacher once read to us in class - i wish i could remember the name of the poet, or even the teacher, haha! but that line stayed with me and i remember it ALWAYS, any time i feel sad - b/c i know it will be over soon - and any time i feel happy - to be sure to enjoy the experience! i have come to see our emotions as our teachers and friends, not enemies. afer all, sometimes sadness or impatience or restlessness are signs that a change must be made - whether internal or external. as related to PMS, i often think these sensations are a reminder of how difficult it is to be a woman living in patriarchy, where we are disconnected from our own divine feminine essence by both forces within and without. in that case, what a powerful reminder to seek that inner essence that leads us, and the whole world, to peace! hee! also, there is a very political book by inga muscio, called c**t (not sure how well that word would fly on this list), and it helped me see my period in a completely different way - not to fear and hate it and think it is dirty any more. i don't assume any of that is going on for you, but i found that once i changed my way of THINKING about my period, my experience of my period changed drastically as well! i still get cramps but i don't medicate them - i just let them come, and let them go. and they always go!! wahe guru!! all that said, i know there are kriyas for hormonal balance and etc., but will leave that to the more learned to point out to you. good luck, sister! seattle sue catlady496 wrote: > is there any exercises that I can do to help with my emotions tried t > one of the healing meditation exercises I found in three and this > didnt help with my emotions I am not sure but it made it worse. Also > would like to know of course of any meditations I can do to help > control my emotions during this time of the month > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Dear catlady! You want exercises to help with emotions. What do you mean by emotions? 1st level: Do you mean the feeling of sadness, fear, anger, shame, joy? 2nd level: Do you mean guilt, depression, fear of fear, anger of anger, shame of shame, fear of joy, moods? The best way to deal the first level of feelings (sad, glad, scared, shame, anger) is to just notice they are energy just going through you. Nothing can help better than you not judging what you are experiencing! Be glad to be alive and to experience these feelings! Yet don't let them be the inner master guiding your life! The second level of emotions are reactions to 1st level feelings: For instance, guilt is the result of feeling angry at someone else and not allowing it so we end up feeling angry at self. If you are truly guilty of something and take responsibility then there is no guilt feeling, just shame or acceptance of having made a mistake. With these kinds of emotions you just need to recognize and accept the original feeling. Fear of fear points that there is an original fear. You can just drop the fear of the fear by recognizing that original fear and making space for it. Allowing it to be OK, but not letting it direct you reactions. You can recognize a fear of going to a job interview but also recognize your dreams and make a choice: which are you going to feed and nourish? The fear or the joy of your dream. It is all about making space for your self! The key: we are human beings, we have feelings and they are OK to feel! Do any yoga set while you are experiencing any emotion without letting the emotion guide the way you practice the yoga. And by the end of the set you will notice that your attitude with respect to whatever you are feeling has changed. Blessings, Awtar Singh Rochester, NY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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