July is the midway point of this profoundly transformative 2020. For us to keep growing, learning, and transcending, it’s important to be challenged here and there to unlock the gifts that it brings. How are you holding up with these challenges? Do you find yourself in a bad mood, irritable, frustrated, or angry that things are not going your way?
There is a strong connection between your emotions and organs. If you are experiencing an outburst of anger often, it may be a sign that your liver is exhausted. According to yogic tradition, one of the impacts of anger is that it weakens a person’s intellectual strength. It limits the person’s capacity to receive and process information, leading to failure, and failure leads to more anger.
Of the 100 organs in our body, we cannot live without the liver.
Everything we take in – the breath, drink, food – get processed by the liver. It’s our body’s manufacturing plant. It receives, filters, and separates useful nutrients the body needs and cleans toxins and wastes from the blood.
The liver sits on the right side, below the rib cage. It’s the only organ that can fully regenerate different sections of itself. That’s why liver transplants can be done using just a portion of the donor’s liver.
Here’s a two-part meditation that I taught in the Tune-up your Organs, Heal your Body 6-class series.
The meditation will help your liver function optimally as it gets rid of that deep, buried anger and old hate. It is also helpful for those who have been abused in the past.
Part 1 – Sit in Easy Pose, cross-legged on the floor (or chair) with a straight spine. Make fists of both hands. The forearms parallel to the ground at the elbow level. The movement is like a hard-hitting motion using full strength, hands moving towards the center of the chest, with the left fist on top of the right. The elbows are out to the sides, and the arms move in and out. The eyes are closed and chant the mantra “Har,” with each motion loud while pulling the navel in. The tongue is hitting the roof of the mouth on the rolled ‘r.’ Do this with high intensity, calling up all the anger you have. Exert and stop the blow at the same time. Hit hard so that the entire body reverberates. Continue for 7 minutes. To end the first part, inhale deeply and squeeze the hands and arms tightly, making the whole body stiff. Then exhale powerfully through the mouth. Repeat three times.
for Part 1, the fists move towards the center of the chest
Part 2 – Place both hands with palms at the heart center, right hand on top of the left hand. Eyes are closed. Go into a state of non-existence as you imagine and feel you don’t exist, a state of no thoughts. Talk to the feeling of anger and ask questions to get to the bottom of what has hurt you. You’ll know when you’re done when you feel a significant shift. Remain with the feelings as you ask for solutions: How must I live in my power? What actions will honor me? Let all thoughts go now. Continue for 8 minutes, then relax. Play the mantra Humee Hum Brahm Hum.
To balance and rebuild your liver, include these foods in your diet: beets, carrots, green foods, and daikon radishes, or take vitamin B and A, and milk thistle supplements.
This Sunday is the last of the three eclipses, a full moon lunar eclipse in Capricorn at 12:44 pm.
We will be most affected by this energy three days before and three days after the eclipse. It would be good to be near water during an eclipse – it can be a lake, the sea, if not, in a shower, or bathtub. Try your best to resist the urge to react. Be still and go deep inside yourself to fully feel any emotions that may surface. Reflect and ask yourself if the stress that you are thrusting on yourself is worth it? You may be led to redefining what you are striving for.
Meditation has been proven to help a lot with anxiety and high stress, especially during these troubled times. Take some time out for self-love and self-care and meditate with a mantra. Pick up on the regular habit of meditation. Start the week with peace with the meditation class on Sunday at 10:00 am.
I say it often, but it bears repeating — let go of the things that do not serve you. Find peace.
In loving service,
Rosan
