YoGA FoR AnGeR MAnAGeMent

Yoga for Anger Management | 17
always find an excuse, and mind always says that look, you
have to be angry because this person has committed a mistake,
this person is at fault. The problem is outside. To shift from
there and say that although the person is at fault, although
the problem is outside, I need not get angry and start holding
it, suppression starts happening and suppression leads to
many of the problems. So what is the next step then? Next
step or better way of handling our anger is to come out of this
speeded up loop of responses, speeded up sentences, horrible
fellow, and terrible fellow, useless fellow, I feel like smashing
up. This speed we have to reduce. So that is what we keep
saying that you please get angry, but get angry slowly. Horrible
fellow…., useless fellow…, I feel like smashing you up…..
If you start repeating the sentences in your mind at a slow
rate, would you call it as anger? It is not anger at all. But how
do you do it? How can you do it? Is it really possible to slow
down the mind? See first step is to recognize that we were getting
lost. I should not be angry is itself a great step and then
to be able to handle that violent upsurge of energy, violent
upsurge of prana that is coming up and hitting against your
head which is making you think that fast, how do I reduce that
speed? Yogic techniques say that when you have this anger
speed, a big surge of energy, big surge of vital energy, prana is
being drawn to the head region and it is bombarding against
your head region. So what you should do therefore is, first
shift the prana from the head region to the lower region and
spend away that prana. Instead of spending that big energy
in the form of horrible fellow, useless fellow and saying and
spoiling the situation, you shift it down and push it down,
spend away that prana in the form of fast breathing. What
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