Yogic Living: Emotional Balance
How do we experience and accept our emotions and feelings, and maintain our higher consciousness with grace? We'll explore Kundalini kriyas and meditations, real life experience shared by our bloggers, and wisdom from Yogi Bhajan to help us understand and deal with the world of our emotions.
Student: “What is the role of emotions?”
Yogi Bhajan: “Emotions are very important, but any mistake you ever make will occur when you become attached to your emotions as reality.”
Wisdom from the Master
Kundalini Yoga Technology
Kundalini Yoga for Emotional Balance
Here is one simple yogic technique for emotional balance you can do most anywhere. When you're upset, drink water and slow the breath down to 4 breaths per minute. This will help to give you indirect control over the mind.
Alternate Nostril Breathing
This simple yet most powerful technique is a pranayam that is easy to do, and it creates a deep sense of well-being and harmony on the physical, mental, and emotional levels.
Stress Relief and Clearing the Emotions of the Past
This meditation can remove unsettling thoughts from the past that surface into the present. It can take difficult situations in the present and release them into the Hands of Infinity.
Managed Energy Meditation
This meditation balances the glandular system so that the emotions become constant and the mind becomes divine in its actual potential.
Movement Relaxation Series
Rhythmic, unforced, graceful, and free movement relaxes the entire body and releases the tensions we store in the body from our daily emotions.
Meditation to Prevent Freaking Out
If you are irritated, very depressed, in a weird mental state, start breathing from the right nostril. In 3 minutes you will be a different person.
Kriya to Open the Heart Center
This meditation opens the heart, increases compassion and sensitivity to others, and helps you to drop emotional defensiveness.
Immune System Booster: The Inner Sun
In this process you may go through various emotions as the glands start to shift their balance. Relax and keep going until you are through the emotional inertia. Then you will feel light, energized, and hopeful.
Meditation for a Calm Heart
Emotionally, this meditation adds clear perception to your relationships with yourself and others. If you are upset at work or in a personal relationship, sit in this meditation for 3 to 15 minutes before deciding how to act. Then act with your full heart.
Meditation for the Neutral Mind
The neutral mind lets all other thoughts be without disturbance to your constant inner light.
Pran Bhanda Mantra Meditation
We become attached to our finite identity, or to time, space, and intensity of emotion or experience. This mantra takes you beyond those finite attachments.
Creating Self Love - Reverse Adi Shakti Kriya
This meditation will totally change you from the inside out. It will give you self-consciousness, self-experience, self-love and then you can love everybody.
Mandhavani Kriya
The heart becomes stable amidst all the different emotions and stressors that come from outside or inside us.
Yoga to Balance the Head and Heart
This yoga set brings a balance between logic and feeling, between ideas and the "fire" to put them into action, between an overly intellectual mind and overly sensitive emotions. It aligns the head and heart so you can be great and graceful, aware and loving.
From Our Bloggers
Emotional Balance 2.0 by GuruMeher Singh
Emotions are the Fuel that Shatter Your Heart Open by Catalyst Yogi
The Evolution of Emotional Balance by Bhavanjot Kaur
Devotion: The Gateway to Infinity by Ram Krishan Singh
The Yoga of Gemstones: Stress-Free Lepidolite by Kudrat Kaur
The Successful Man from Man to Man: A Journal of Discovery for the Conscious Man
Balancing the Emotions by Balancing the Breath by Sat Purkh Kaur
The Self-Sensory System: Your Protecting Archangel by Catalyst Yogi
Good Grief by Sewa Singh
Tolerance is God Speaking to God by Catalyst Yogi
The Freedom to Choose Happiness by Shakti Parwha Kaur
Love is an Inside Job by GuruMeher Singh
Pink Opal Soothes the Heart by Kudrat Kaur
The GPS of the Aquarian Age is the Neutral Mind by Catalyst Yogi
Shoulder Rolls: Finding Balance in Uncertain Times by Atma Kaur