Advait - Mastering Emotions The Yogic Way: Unique Ancient Indian Techniques to Stop Overthinking, Gain Back the Control of Your Mind and Master Your Emotions. (Yogic Brain Mastery Book 4)

Let us first understand how emotions are created in our brain;

Whatever happens around us or the circumstances that we find ourselves surrounded in, creates thoughts in our mind.

We are naturally designed to not let these thought be, rather to investigate various aspects of these thoughts based on our past experiences and memories, this is what we call as thinking.

When we indulge in thinking, the gradual next step we cannot resist is visualizing situations that are supplementary to the initial thought.

Our mind is so powerful that this visualization induces actual physical changes in our body, like secretion of a certain hormone, increased heart rate, increased rate of breathing, sweating etc.

These physical reactions then amplify the effect of the initial thought, and thus lead to creation of an emotion.

For eg.-

A pleasant sensory input even like a FB notification informing you that someone has liked your profile picture and has given you a like or a love will induce you to think good about your appearance and looks, also inducing your brain to give itself a micro shot of dopamine, the feel good hormone and this will trigger addition of positive, feel good vibes into your default emotional state, taking you into a net positive emotional state of being HAPPY.

To better understand our emotions and their origins, I highly recommend you watch this Youtube video from the channel What Ive Learned;

Where do emotions come from?

Dont read ahead until youve seen the video.

Default Emotional Level

When we say that someone has an optimistic outlook towards life, and doesnt get bogged down by petty issues and very confident about his own abilities, we are acknowledging the fact that they have a net positive default emotional level.

Similarly, someone having a pessimistic attitude and who worries constantly and finds justification that everything happening around them is somehow harmful to them and some sort of conspiracy against their well being, will be categorized as an individual with a net negative default emotional level.

Our default emotional levels dont fall out of thin air, they are a direct and natural result of how we have lived our lives so far. They are based on our past life experiences, the memories that are created in our brain after those experiences, the people that were in our life and their behaviors, the people that currently are a part of our life, our peers, our existing circumstances and most importantly our behavior/reaction towards the things that happened to us.

Ego

The one thing that interferes with our default emotional levels and messes up our lives is our Ego.

It is that false feeling of assumed supremacy combined with us being nosy creatures imagining that everything that is happening around us has a sinister, negative intention against our well being, when things go against our wishes.

It is this Ego of ours that leads us to think that everything happening around us has us at its epicenter. Every conversation happening around us, which we are not privy to, is also about us and then we focus particularly on the negative aspects of it and think how these things will negatively affect our self-imagined status.

Here is how our Ego interferes with our default emotional levels;

In this case our Ego cancels out the positivity and our life feels emotionally hollow.

In this case our Ego contributes to increasing our net negativity and this leads to an extremely pessimistic attitude.

Designing your new normal / Phase-I

The first step to create a new normal and have a High Net Positive score is to work towards increasing your positivity awareness and removing your Ego from the equation.

We achieve that by using a unique combination of four secret techniques of the ancient Indian seers, viz., the SoHum meditation, Positivity Awareness meditation, Visualization aided Ashwaratna mudra and Happiness inducing Hamsi mudra.

Practice of these four techniques will help us in establishing a net positive, highly optimistic foundation for our emotions, which wont get out of sync easily and keep us positive and emotionally stable.

This would be Phase-I and will give us a much needed and stable positive emotional foundation.

Dealing with Negative Triggers / Phase-II

In phase-II we deal with four triggers that cause us to become more negative in our outlook and throw ourselves into a state of emotional instability.

The triggers that we deal in this book are;

- Negative Overthinking

- Constant Fear and Worry

- Lack of Willpower and Self-Confidence

- Dependence on modern lifestyle driven digital Addictions (email, social media etc.)

The way we deal with these four triggers is simple, I call it the Zero Thought Technique, but to understand it you would have to first acknowledge how negativity begets more negativity and keeps us in a perpetual downward spiral.

The simple trick to break out of this spiral is to break the chain of negative thoughts using what I call as the zero thought techniques.

Once the chain of negativity is broken then we follow up with specific targeted techniques to overcome these triggers.

With practice the positivity awareness meditation from phase-I, will alert you about the negative trigger that is about to come your way, so that you get ready to take the necessary steps beforehand.