Mental Anguish 8-9-24
- Dayna Culwell
- Feb 14
- 3 min read
Self-CareStarts Here.Feel incredible with Yoga + CoreFirst + PilatesClick to Book Your Self-Care Appointment Here This week has been an emotional one. More and more loved ones are reaching the age where more body parts don't work like they're supposed to! We can feel vulnerable and fearful and yet, life can be the best it's ever been--all within the same week. I am wrestling with these feelings too. What can we do? How can we possibly cope? The Yoga Sutras carry the best advice for mental anguish. Read on for a golden nugget or two.Yoga Sutra 2.16This sutra teaches us that while we can't change the past or instantly erase present pain, we can reduce future mental anguish by changing how the mind relates to experiences. -Pantajali“Whatever is going to happen will happen. But the present is in my hands. Let me live it properly with wisdom and balanced state and this is how I will avoid the suffering that may come to me.”
This is one of the most important precepts of Patanjali Yoga. -Yoga Institute Click to learn more about The Yoga Institute
Ask yourself: Is your suffering coming from not knowing, overly attachment, avoidance, or fear of death/loss? Awareness of suffering's root cause is #1. Name the emotion or thought pattern when it arises.
Shift your focus from reliving the same pain to choosing your thoughts, actions, and attitudes. Yoga Sutra 1.33 suggests shifting your thoughts to others, praising the virtuous, and showing compassion to others who suffer.
Click to learn more about Y.S. 1.33
Mental anguish clouds the truth of who you are.Remind yourself that you are not the disturbance. You are the Awareness that see the disturbance. Steer your thoughts towards the breath, towards a beautiful place you love, towards gratitude, or anything that lifts and inspires you.In short, there are 3 tools that the Yoga Sutras suggest to break the patterns that cause suffering:
That last one confused me so I looked into more explanations.It called upekșã in Sanskrit.
Click to learn more about Upekșā Upekșã means:
Upekșã means:
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