Turn perspiration into inspiration: try a yoga workout to help you reduce your stress levels and increase your mental wellness and wellbeing. Yoga belongs traditionally to the ‘complementary’ area of health, but it is becoming a more mainstream occupation.
Yoga philosophy believes that four fundamental passions are at the root of all problems with human existence, and that anger is one of them.
Anger is a very difficult emotion – nobody wants to be angry or to have anyone be angry with them. It is something that you probably actively try to avoid, but nevertheless it still raises its ugly head from time to time.
No matter how calm you intend to stay, you can find yourself feeling angry with a co-worker, partner, or simply someone who drives badly when you are in traffic. This powerful emotion has the power to disturb your calm and peace. That is because anger is a classic sign of perceived threat, and it throws your body into overdrive, telling it that something is wrong and that you need to take action.
Anger has both behavioural, mental and physical components. On a behavioural level you may find yourself yelling, making angry facial expressions or contorting your face, and this may even turn into violence. Mentally, you think about the things that make you angry. Physically you may grow red, feel tense or have an elevated heart rate.
You tend to feel angry without really considering why it is that you are feeling angry, and this is where yoga comes into play. Yoga teaches us to be more self-aware. Rather than being a bunch of posing and posturing, yoga is actually a path to awareness in body and in mind. It teaches us to feel the physical effects of the thoughts and emotions that we feel and to examine how the way we think affects our health.
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