YoGA FoR AnGeR MAnAGeMent

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the muscles. The heart would have to pulsate very quickly
and at greater forces and of course, faster breathing and obviously
breath-rate becomes more. Experiencing and expressing
anger are extremely dangerous for health. Then what is the
option? Many times people are trained not to express anger.
Imagine a totally different scene a person who is working in an
office and has a very annoying boss who blames him for everything
that goes bad and this person who is in the office, has
been trained from childhood to please his parents, to please all
authority figures and then he talks very nicely to the boss every
morning. He shows that he is very pleased with him. But
inside he is boiling with rage. Is this good for health? It is not.
In fact, such personalities have been called type “C” personality.
The type “C” personality is a person who suppresses the
emotions repeatedly. If you suppress your emotions, it is not
going to be good for health. The disease which has been most
common with suppressed emotions is quite a serious disease
even today and that is Cancer. That is why we say, ‘anger’ is
such a powerful emotion.
So now let us see is it good to experience anger and run the
risk of developing diabetes or hypertension? Is it good to suppress
anger and run the risk of developing the disease like
Cancer? Or is it better to do something else? Let us think
what that something else could be? For this, I am going to give
you yet another example and this is an example of a Manager
of a Company. Imagine that you have a very nice Manager. He
wants all his employees to be happy. He goes on holiday and
when he comes back from holiday, he finds that all of them are
totally laid back. Some of them have gone on leave, other peo-
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