Guest guest Posted March 19, 2010 Report Share Posted March 19, 2010 I have experienced tears welling up during various yoga exercises. It has happened to me many times over the years. The other day, I just went into child's pose and began to weep. Has anyone else had this experience? Any ideas to the cause or reason? Love and light, Satjeet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Kundalini-Yoga , " Quixx " <quixx32 wrote: > I have experienced tears welling up during various yoga exercises. > Any ideas to the cause or reason? It means your yoga is doing you a lot of good. It's your system getting rid of repressed emotions (the garbage being emptied from your subconcious). When you experience something negative your body tenses up and you feel a negative emotion. The system that releases this tension and purges the negative emotion from your mind doesn't work properly in our high stress world so the residue of the negative experience remains. It is this reservoir of negative emotion that messes us up - making us perceive things negatively and feel anxious etc. Yoga is allowing your system to release these residues. As it happens some of the repressed emotion comes into conciousness and in your subconcious the negative emotion is occuring too - hence the tears. I You can get pleasurable feelings from such a release (tears of release) - it's your systems reward for making a beneficial change. But you can also feel awful from yoga too - as old repressed emotions happen in reverse (un-repressing). When we feel a negative emotion a lot more is going on below the surface too. Emotion occurs as reactions inside our body and some of this activity causes 'feelings' to be generated in our conciousness. That's why you can't change your feelings much by talking to them or wishing for them to change but yoga can change them by manipulating the body. You can generate emotions with yoga movement. You can also stimulate your system to release repressed emotions - and this is what makes yoga teachers important for stressed out people. Western psychology still hasn't got this point! Keith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Dear Keith and List, Thanks for that, lately I have been feeling pain coming from yoga. I even thought it wasn't working anymore. I have practised more and gone through more challenges in KY so have been surprised to feel 'worse'. Maybe it is a case of low valleys occurring at higher peaks. Or as a friend joked once 'my lows are other peoples highs'. Joking aside, it is useful to know this, I don't feel so high on yoga lately, more of a sense of grittiness. Best wishes, Sukhnivas Kundalini-Yoga , " biftonb " <biftonb wrote: > > > > Kundalini-Yoga , " Quixx " <quixx32@> wrote: > > I have experienced tears welling up during various yoga exercises. > > Any ideas to the cause or reason? > It means your yoga is doing you a lot of good. > > It's your system getting rid of repressed emotions (the garbage being emptied from your subconcious). > > When you experience something negative your body tenses up and you feel a negative emotion. > The system that releases this tension and purges the negative emotion from your mind doesn't work properly in our high stress world so the residue of the negative experience remains. It is this reservoir of negative emotion that messes us up - making us perceive things negatively and feel anxious etc. > > Yoga is allowing your system to release these residues. As it happens some of the repressed emotion comes into conciousness and in your subconcious the negative emotion is occuring too - hence the tears. I You can get pleasurable feelings from such a release (tears of release) - it's your systems reward for making a beneficial change. > But you can also feel awful from yoga too - as old repressed emotions happen in reverse (un-repressing). > > When we feel a negative emotion a lot more is going on below the surface too. Emotion occurs as reactions inside our body and some of this activity causes 'feelings' to be generated in our conciousness. > That's why you can't change your feelings much by talking to them or wishing for them to change but yoga can change them by manipulating the body. > You can generate emotions with yoga movement. You can also stimulate your system to release repressed emotions - and this is what makes yoga teachers important for stressed out people. > > Western psychology still hasn't got this point! > > Keith. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Sat Nam I know very few people who have not experienced those moments of tears while doing yoga. For me, it was a clearing and cleansing process that lasted several years. That phase does come to an end eventually or at least, it did for me. I do like to remind my students that when you practice yoga, try to avoid evaluating the daily grittiness when you did such or such kriya and look to the broader aspects of your life. There is where you will find great change and development from practicing yoga. It is a subtle path that is hard to register on the daily level and keeps blossoming with sadhana. Many blessings to you. Sundari Satnam Kaur Kundalini-Yoga , " beautiful22 " <22taro wrote: > > Dear Keith and List, > Thanks for that, lately I have been feeling pain coming from yoga. I even thought it wasn't working anymore. I have practised more and gone through more challenges in KY so have been surprised to feel 'worse'. > Maybe it is a case of low valleys occurring at higher peaks. Or as a friend joked once 'my lows are other peoples highs'. > Joking aside, it is useful to know this, I don't feel so high on yoga lately, more of a sense of grittiness. > Best wishes, > Sukhnivas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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