The Impact of Negative Emotions
When you feel depressed, know that you are creating particles of depression around you. Those ions of depressions around you go and stick to the environment. If someone walks into that place, even after you have left, that person for no reason would start feeling depressed. Have you experienced this? You walk into a room and suddenly feel angry vibes. You were all right a few minutes ago but the moment you walk in, all the anger, stress and tension overtake you.
Like we pollute the earth and the water, we also pollute the subtle environment of feelings and emotions. Man has become a victim of his environment. He is not in control of his mind but a victim of the environment. Is it not so? We pollute our environment in a very subtle way through our negative emotions. But it takes quite sometime to clear the environment of this. It is inevitable that sometimes you feel stressed and negative. Sometimes you get into all sorts of moods — it is inevitable. It happens. Nobody wants it, but it happens. So how do we handle them? We hear a lot about other things in life but we spend very little time hearing ourselves. This is the most unfortunate thing. Then what is the solution? This is where we miss a very fundamental principle that governs our environment, our mind our emotions and our life in general.
Our body has the capacity to sustain the vibrations of bliss and peace much longer than it does negative emotions because positivity is in the centre of our existence. Just like in the structure of an atom, protons and neutrons are in the centre of the atom and electrons are only the periphery, the same is with our lives; the centre core of our existence is bliss and joy, but it is surrounded by a cloud of negative ions. Through the help of the breath, we can easily get over our negative emotions in a short period. Through meditation and certain breathing techniques, you can clear this negative cloud.
What is there for you to get depressed? You are here for a few years anyway; just a few years on this planet. And as long as you are here, you can as well be happy. This life has so much to offer you. You can see this once you take sometime off, rejuvenating the soul. Your soul is hungry for a smile from you. If you could give this, you feel energised the whole year and nothing whatsoever can take the smile from you.
Take some time off to look a little deep into oneself and calm the mind down. Thus erasing all the impressions that we are carrying in our minds, we can experience the presence, the divine that is the very core of our existence. The presence has to be felt by the heart and human life is enriched only when we can live this sixth sense of existence, of feeling.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR The writer is an Indian yoga guru, a spiritual leader, founder of The Art of Living
