It's normal to have unpleasant feelings or emotions in us from time to time. There's totally nothing wrong or bad when there are feelings or emotions that the worldly thinking people label them as 'bad', 'negative' and 'unhappy' feelings and emotions.
Many people would 'advise' those who are going through some difficult time or emotional moments to stop being emotional as if emotions and being emotional is something not good, or bad, or wrong, or weak.
It's not about "Hey, you should look around you, count your blessings, and be grateful for all the little good things that you have or the bad things that you don't have. Stop being so ungrateful, negative and unhappy. Don't waste your life, time and energy in all these 'bad' feelings and 'negative' emotions. It's not good for you and the people around you."
Yoga and meditation practice is not about push away or avoid certain emotions and feelings that the mind recognizes as 'bad', 'negative', or 'unhappy'. Yoga and meditation practice is not about cultivate good and happy feelings and emotions, and fill the mind with only 'good' and 'positive' feelings and emotions. It's not about don't allow any 'bad' and 'negative' feelings and emotions to arise or exist in the mind.
The teachings of yoga never criticize or tease people who feel low, bad, sad, angry, negative, depress or unhappy from time to time, or once in a blue moon, or most of the time. The teachings of yoga never judge or label any kinds of feelings and emotions as something 'good' or 'bad', 'positive' or 'negative'. It is normal and okay for the mind to experience different types of pleasant and unpleasant feelings and emotions from time to time.
We allow our minds and other people's minds to perceive feelings and emotions that are unpleasant, that are unhappy. It's okay sometimes we don't feel like talking and want to have some time just for ourselves. It's okay sometimes other people don't feel like talking and want to have some time just for themselves. It's okay that we are not always happy all the time. We don't have to be happy all the time.
What we are practicing in yoga and meditation is to be aware of any feelings or emotions, without generate identification with these feelings and emotions as 'I' or 'mine'; without judging these feelings or emotions as 'good' or 'bad', 'negative' or 'positive'; without judging the mind as 'good' or 'bad', 'positive' or 'negative'; without expectation that 'I' only want to feel 'good' and have 'positive' emotions, and 'I' don't want to feel 'bad' or have any 'negative' emotions; without generate craving or aversion towards certain feelings or emotions that the mind likes or dislikes; without being over-powered by these pleasant and unpleasant feelings and emotions to influence our actions and speech; knowing that no matter they are pleasant or unpleasant feelings and emotions, they all are impermanent, that they will pass away; and allowing all these impermanent feelings and emotions to arise, to be there, to change and passing away.
Whether we like it, or not; attach to it, or not, they all will pass away sooner, or later. Just observe, without attachment, identification, judgment, craving, aversion, or expectation.
It's not about not welcoming or pushing away the 'bad' and 'negative' feelings and emotions. It's not about welcoming and cultivating or retaining 'good' and 'positive' feelings and emotions. They are neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative, and they are impermanent. And it's not 'I'.
Accepting the reality in the present moment now as it is, whether it's pleasant or unpleasant, whether it's the way that we like it to be, or not. It's impermanent. Allowing all the impermanent changes to be there as they are. Whether the mind is at peace, or disturbed and unrest, it's impermanent and it's not 'I'.
Om shanti.
Many people would 'advise' those who are going through some difficult time or emotional moments to stop being emotional as if emotions and being emotional is something not good, or bad, or wrong, or weak.
It's not about "Hey, you should look around you, count your blessings, and be grateful for all the little good things that you have or the bad things that you don't have. Stop being so ungrateful, negative and unhappy. Don't waste your life, time and energy in all these 'bad' feelings and 'negative' emotions. It's not good for you and the people around you."
Yoga and meditation practice is not about push away or avoid certain emotions and feelings that the mind recognizes as 'bad', 'negative', or 'unhappy'. Yoga and meditation practice is not about cultivate good and happy feelings and emotions, and fill the mind with only 'good' and 'positive' feelings and emotions. It's not about don't allow any 'bad' and 'negative' feelings and emotions to arise or exist in the mind.
The teachings of yoga never criticize or tease people who feel low, bad, sad, angry, negative, depress or unhappy from time to time, or once in a blue moon, or most of the time. The teachings of yoga never judge or label any kinds of feelings and emotions as something 'good' or 'bad', 'positive' or 'negative'. It is normal and okay for the mind to experience different types of pleasant and unpleasant feelings and emotions from time to time.
We allow our minds and other people's minds to perceive feelings and emotions that are unpleasant, that are unhappy. It's okay sometimes we don't feel like talking and want to have some time just for ourselves. It's okay sometimes other people don't feel like talking and want to have some time just for themselves. It's okay that we are not always happy all the time. We don't have to be happy all the time.
What we are practicing in yoga and meditation is to be aware of any feelings or emotions, without generate identification with these feelings and emotions as 'I' or 'mine'; without judging these feelings or emotions as 'good' or 'bad', 'negative' or 'positive'; without judging the mind as 'good' or 'bad', 'positive' or 'negative'; without expectation that 'I' only want to feel 'good' and have 'positive' emotions, and 'I' don't want to feel 'bad' or have any 'negative' emotions; without generate craving or aversion towards certain feelings or emotions that the mind likes or dislikes; without being over-powered by these pleasant and unpleasant feelings and emotions to influence our actions and speech; knowing that no matter they are pleasant or unpleasant feelings and emotions, they all are impermanent, that they will pass away; and allowing all these impermanent feelings and emotions to arise, to be there, to change and passing away.
Whether we like it, or not; attach to it, or not, they all will pass away sooner, or later. Just observe, without attachment, identification, judgment, craving, aversion, or expectation.
It's not about not welcoming or pushing away the 'bad' and 'negative' feelings and emotions. It's not about welcoming and cultivating or retaining 'good' and 'positive' feelings and emotions. They are neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative, and they are impermanent. And it's not 'I'.
Accepting the reality in the present moment now as it is, whether it's pleasant or unpleasant, whether it's the way that we like it to be, or not. It's impermanent. Allowing all the impermanent changes to be there as they are. Whether the mind is at peace, or disturbed and unrest, it's impermanent and it's not 'I'.
Om shanti.
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