YoGA FoR AnGeR MAnAGeMent

16 | Yoga for Anger Management
mastery phase is what Patanjali calls as Chitta Vritti Nirodhaha.
To control the mind is Yoga. So you have started controlling
in the name of efficacy, in the name of growth, in the
name of diplomacy, in the name of successful productive Person.
We have learnt to control this. But don’t you think in the
present day life style it is this progressive, successful, ambitious
Type A personality person who is all the time on the go,
wanting to achieve things who is very highly provoked with
situation because there are too many situations where provocation
leading to suppression happens repeatedly is the one
who gets affected. Outside you have to keep a very pleasant
diplomatic smile on your face. Isn’t this the one which is causing
all the psycho-physiological problems? Problems of heart
attack, acidity, sleeplessness, joint pains, so many of these
modern diseases are all because of suppressed anger which is
a manifestation of some degree of control that we have already
developed. So let us see how Yoga offers techniques of not
suppressing nor expressing. Expressing is animal; suppression
is human but is causing problems. So let us see how to
grow from this level to become masters of our mind so that
anger is no longer a botheration to you rather it helps you.
In the last two episodes we have understood how we have to
learn to move on from our instinctual behavior of responding
through speeded up repeated sentences in our mind in the
form of anger, response to demanding situations to becoming
aware that I should change and then move on and go ahead.
We also understood how suppression is not the right answer.
In suppression you are holding an anger loop, as repeating
of sentences. So every time you try to handle your anger, we
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