What to do when you'r starting to get anoyed, or really pissed

Discussion in 'Yoga and Meditation' started by sasja, Jul 1, 2004.

  1. sasja

    sasja Member

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    What's the best meditation thing you can do when you'r feeling that you'r getting anoyed or pissed.
     
  2. nephthys

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    When you are already angry meditating will be very hard. Meditation is a daily practice that will help you make less angry when practiced correctly.

    There are other things you can do, however. One is to just count to ten and take deep breaths. Even breathing deeply unnaturally (something you wouldn't do in meditation) is helpful because you might feel like you are calming down. At the very least you won't do anything stupid when enraged. Another technique you should practice with it is to remove the target. What are you getting angry at? The person's hands? His body? His genes (that certainly isn't his fault)? Try reasoning along these lines. Sometimes you can imagine that you yourself could easily have made that mistake - perhaps even remember a time where you did.

    All that failing you could do a very active meditative practice. One possibility would be to recite "peace, peace, peace..." while being aware of your lips. If peace doesn't sound nice, you could try "shanti, shanti, shanti..." (Sanskrit) or in some other language that you feel sounds a bit better.
     
  3. Chodpa

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    It just depends what sort of meditation you practice. Some meditations are very powerful, some utilize the wrathful aspects of nature. Some instead are peaceful. I know you will ask which one you are doing. I don't know, what form of meditation are you doing? If you are doing a wrathful practice then usually you will know. Wrathful practices usually center somewhere in the brain rather than in the heart. Often when meditation starts using higher brain processes then the wrathful aspect starts taking over. Thoughts are all blades as it were. The best solution to this is to merely let all things go and not attach any significance to them during the session. Also, it's best to forget whatever arose during meditation and see the practice as separate from life itself. So that when you come out you don't start ascribing all sorts of details of logic to people's actions which weren't really intended. I often think of this guy I knew who once had a girl smile at him, and then because we spent many hours in meditation, he had already envisioned their entire life together and they had even gotten married and had a family and she was his perfect soul mate and eveything, just from a smile, which she soon forgot she even made. The thoughts during meditations, and especially extended bouts of meditation can be extremely illusory and yet seem especially real based upon the increasing bliss of the meditator. This person went on the reify or pour more energy into his idle daydreams until he was totally fixated on the girl. The obsession lasted for about three years. So let him be an example. Leave the thoughts of meditation aside from real life. And during the practice let them all go.
     
  4. Bhaskar

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    Recognise the divinity of the person who enrages you. Remember, it is the very same self working through him, the same conciousness, the same lord is in him as in you. Immediately your anger drops away, only love nd lvoe alone remains. Then you will find that the other person will also melt, his attitude towards you will change. Love conquers all.

    ishavasyam idam sarvam.

    hari om!
     
  5. sasja

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    thank you so much guys.
    I will remember every advice you have given me.
    peace"
     

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