Yogic Living Newsletter

May 2022 - Volume 2

Emotions are an important part of being human because they give us valuable information. However, how can we experience and accept our emotions and feelings, while maintaining our higher consciousness with grace? In this issue of Yogic Living, we’ll explore Kundalini kriyas and meditations, as well as real-life experiences shared by one of our bloggers to help us understand and deal with the world of our emotions. These techniques invite you to dip into the patience necessary to go beyond the finite self to the infinite vastness of your true identity. Won’t you join us?

Emotional Balance 2.0

When you feel bad, doing Kundalini Yoga can make you feel better. Stressed and upset? Do a strong set and you may become calm and peaceful. There are many kriyas and meditations specifically for emotional balance, to get rid of fear and anger, and to release negative thoughts. It is not unusual in class to cry spontaneously and then leave feeling good. Kundalini Yoga powerfully cleanses, strengthens and generates positive emotional states. This is Emotional Balance 1.0. It is wonderful. And it is not enough!

Seeking pleasure, even at this higher spiritual level, and avoiding pain is fundamentally what yoga advises us to transcend. The yogi lives beyond polarity in neutrality. Avoiding the dark side of our fears, negative thoughts and other heavy feelings leads to inauthenticity, pretention, spiritual bypassing, neurosis, and eventually physical and mental illness. The soul moves us steadily toward wholeness. So not dealing with our wounds and their emotional patterns causes cracks in any spiritual veneer, eventually.

Kriya for Emotional Balance

Here is one simple yogic technique for emotional balance you can do almost anywhere. First, drink a glass of water. Sit in easy pose, place the arms across the chest and lock the hands under the armpits. The palms are open and against the body. Raise the shoulders up tight against the earlobes. Pull the spine straight up from the back of the head which brings the jaw in and up. The breath will automatically become slow. Close your eyes.

Kriya to Relax and Release Fear

This kriya helps you relax. When you are relaxed, you can access the neutral mind, and assess your situation without fear or other reactive emotions. It is cleansing and uplifting. It works on the kidneys, liver, and spleen; breaks up deposits in the body; cleanses the blood; removes tension from the neck; and is said to be effective against moodiness and anger.

Stress Relief and Clearing the Emotions of the Past

This meditation is especially useful for dealing with stressful relationships and past family issues. lt addresses phobias, fears, and neuroses. It can remove unsettling thoughts from the past that surface in the present. It can take difficult situations in the present and release them into the Hands of Infinity. Place the hands at the center of the chest with the tips of the thumbs touching each other and each of the fingers touching the corresponding fingers on the opposite hand. Leave space between the palms. The fingertips are pointing upward.

Join Us for the June eSolstice

Join this extraordinary gathering of Kundalini Yoga teachers and consciousness leaders for our 4-day June eSolstice. Learn practices and insights into how the technology of Kundalini Yoga can help us engage in self-discovery, collectively renew, and embody yoga in action. We invite yogis of all levels to relax your mind, strengthen your body, and awaken your spirit with us.

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