Emotional Release in Ayurveda

EMOTIONAL RELEASE

       Let us first deal with the emotional or psychological factors. Anger, fear, anxiety, nervousness, jealousy, possessiveness and greed are common human emotions. Yet most people learn in childhood not to express these negative emotions. As a result, one begins at an early age to repress the natural expressions of these feelings. The science of Ayurveda teaches that the individual must' release these emotions which, if they remain repressed, will cause imbalances resulting in disease-causing toxins.

     The Ayurvedic technique for dealing with negativity is: obser­vation and release. For example, when anger appears, one should be completely aware of it; watch this feeling as it unfolds from beginning to end. From this observation, one can learn about the nature of the anger and then let the anger go release it. All nega­tive emotions may be dealt with in this way. Ayurveda teaches that through awareness all negative emotions can be released.

      Fear is associated with vata: anger with pitta: and greed, envy and possessiveness with kapha. If one represses fear, the kidneys will be disturbed; anger, the liver; greed and possessiveness of the heart and spleen.