Balance Difficult Emotions

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TODAY'S LEARNING
Balance Difficult Emotions

Here are four key steps you can try to practice cultivating emotional balance:

1) Be aware of what has caused an emotion to arise. Is it a memory, an internal narrative, the outside world, or the expectation of something to come? One or more of these could be the case!

2) Notice the felt sense of this emotion in the body. What characteristics or bodily feelings exist within the body?

3) Label the emotion as something you are aware of. For instance, "I recognize that I am becoming angry."

4) Breathe into the felt sense of this emotion in the body. Meanwhile, observe the stories, or thoughts that are coming up in relation to the emotion. Observe the stories and the felt sense from the perspective of the self, the one who is witnessing your experience, rather than attempting to push them away.

Buddhist psychologist and meditation instructor Tara Brach says that people are fully in charge of their own experiences. It is possible to learn how to identify the emotions that are emerging in your body and to choose your response to them with practice and conscious awareness.

A Mindfulness Practice

Begin by paying attention to your breathing. Pay attention to inhaling via your nose, extending your belly, and exhaling out of it. Make the exhalation slightly longer and breathe out through the mouth. This cyclical breath calms your sympathetic nervous system and allows you to achieve a more relaxed state, activating the parasympathetic or rest and digest system. It is much simpler to practice and enter the awareness that you are not your emotions; rather, you are only experiencing them while you are in this more centered place. As was previously said, you have the power to choose how you react to your emotions as the observer of them.

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Once two Zen monks were walking down the road. It was a breezy day. One of them said to the other: “Look, the flag is flapping in the breeze.” The second monk replied: “No, that is foolish. The breeze is flapping the flag!” And so they spent an exciting quarter hour: “The flag is flapping!” “The breeze is flapping!”

As the debate was heating up, the Zen master appeared on the road. They ran to him. “Roshi, please settle our dispute. I say the flag is flapping in the breeze, he says the breeze is flapping the flag. Which one of us is right?” The master looked at them with a penetrating eye. “You are both wrong,” he said. “Your minds are flapping!”

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YOGAPEDIA
Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana)

What is Cobra Pose?

Cobra pose, or bhujangasana, is a beginner's backbend that builds spinal flexibility. In this posture, the hands are pushed into the floor to lift the head and torso while the legs stay elongated.

Instructions

• Lie on your stomach with your feet as wide as your hips and your hands next to your chest, fingers spread wide.

• With an inhale, push into your hands to lift your head and torso, keeping your pelvis on the floor.

• Bend your elbows slightly to open up your shoulders.

• Breathe while holding the pose.

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