Bheebatsa (Abhorrence) Rasa

Repugnance, disgust and hatred of anything characterise this emotion.  This fills you with negativity and an obsession with the object or person.  If such a feeling attacks you, like jealousy, acknowledge it and retreat from it as rapidly as possible.  To cultivate dispassion towards the event or person requires practice.  For the time being avoid such toxic people or situations.

Bhayanaka (Fear) Rasa

Fear is a negative energy. It saps your ability to act.  Unless you confront it, it follows you like a shadow.  Fear and the consequent anxiety cause your courage to leak out of the system like a leaking gas pipeline.  It is characterised by the inability to act.  The body is full of stress chemicals and time is wasted on depressed and negative self-talk.  It pollutes the most powerful mind field.

Action Plan for Welcoming Adbuta Into Your Life

1.  Be alone in silence with Nature at the beginning and end of every day.

2.  Enjoy a walk among tall trees and green gardens.

3.  Plant seeds and trees, and distribute them.

4.  Set apart time for prayer to praise God for his glorious creation.

5.  Set apart time to enjoy beauty

Adbutha (Wonder) Rasa

Wonder is developed from chivalry. This is a very useful, feel-good emotion. Welcome wonder into you life.  Celebrate the beauty of the stars, enjoy the beauty of the mountains. Greet the dawn and say goodbye to sunset.  The moonlight has been created to heal your wounds. Sleep on the lap of Mother Nature and become a child again.

            

Action Plan for Welcoming Vira Rasa Sringara Into Your Life

1.  Enjoy the thrill of overcoming obstacles.

2. Do not be cast down by failure, instead enjoy the thrill of overcoming the problem.

3.  Be involved in solving community problems.

4.  Get involved in speaking up against injustice and resisting evil.

5.  Remember that beyond the stormy mountain is the calm green valley.

Vira (Chivalry) Rasa

Among the navarasas, chivalry is valid to the life of being a warrior and today, many of us are corporate warriors which need real courage.

The rapture of chivalry is produced by means of energy, perseverance, optimism, absence of surprise, presence of mind and kindness.

Chivalry or bravery is definitely a feel-good situation.  Chivalry is represented on the stage by firmness, patience, heroism, pride, zeal, valour and wit. Bravery fills you with enthusiasm, energy and spontaneity. It is this brave and gentle quality that defines a true hero and it reaps the benefits of other’s happiness.  Bravery is seen in the small everyday courage that each of us is called to manifest in the face of obstacles.  The ability to sacrifice, which is the core of emotional intelligence, is a part of the vira rasa.  The ability to persist in the face of difficulties is a part of this.  To meet the jealousy and pettiness of the world with gentleness, humour and fearlessness is part of it.  Brilliance and elegance belong to the true warrior, who aligns himself with the powerful forces of goodness. 

‘Josh’, wakefulness, energy and boundless enthusiasm are an expression of this energy.

Laughter is a natural tranquiliser:

Psychologist Sigmund Freud in his book Wit and its

Relation to Unconscious Mind observed, ‘Humour and laughter

helped individuals defend against subconscious fears, worries, anger and

other disturbing emotions, which are the  cause of all types of psychosomatic disorders.  Several psychologists are now using humour and laughter as a weapon to combat insomnia, neurosis, nervous breakdown etc.’

‘That day is the most wasted in which one

            has not laughed.’   Atharva Veda

                 Make a New Year resolution to laugh ….

               And the world will laugh with you.

(Quoted from the Laughter Club sessions.)

Laughter oxygenates all the cells of the body

According to Dr Robert Provine, ‘A hearty laugh raises the pulse rate and amplifies respiration, thus leading to increase in oxygen

intake in all the cells of the body. We inhale larger quantity of

oxygen which circulates more freely through the blood to every

part of the body.’

Laughter is an internal jogging

According to Norman Cousins, ‘Laughter not only massages

all the organs of the body but also defuses tension in every part

of the body.  Laughter acts as anesthetic and alleviates

depression which is the cause of major diseases.  Muscles

of abdomen get worked out, as do the thorax, diaphragm and the

circulatory and endocrine system.  Hearty laughter enjoys most of the

benefits attributed to physical exercise.’

Laughter helps a person live longer and feel younger

Psychiatrist William Fry writes in his book Humour and Ageing, ‘It is

estimated that the impact on the heart of twenty seconds of

hearty laughter is comparable to three minutes of rowing,

which is supposed to be the best aerobic exercise for

re-conditioning the entire body and promote longevity.  Laughter

stimulates heart, supplies oxygen to lungs and energises the brain cells,

which promotes positive outlook in life.’

Hasya Bytes

Laugh And Live Longer

Bible: ‘A merry heart hath a cheerful countenance,’ and

‘doeth good like a medicine.’

Aristotle: ‘Laughter is the bodily exercise precious to health.’

Now doctors and psychologists in USA and UK are studying the

medical benefits of laughter on the human body and have

confirmed that laughter is really the best medicine.

Action Plan for Welcoming Hasya Into Your Life

• Watch films and television features that make you laugh. 
• Be with cheerful people. Avoid the Cassandras and the Agony Uncles. Avoid toxic people.
• Read and share jokes on the internet.
• Smile.  Do not smother a laugh.
• Play with babies, make them giggle.

·          Buy balloons for toddlers.

• Listen to laughter in a school playground.

Laughter is a natural tranquiliser:

Psychologist Sigmund Freud in his book Wit and its

Relation to Unconscious Mind observed, ‘Humour and laughter

helped individuals defend against subconscious fears, worries, anger and

other disturbing emotions, which are the  cause of all types of psychosomatic disorders.  Several psychologists are now using humour and laughter as a weapon to combat insomnia, neurosis, nervous breakdown etc.’

‘That day is the most wasted in which one

            has not laughed.’   Atharva Veda

                 Make a New Year resolution to laugh ….

               And the world will laugh with you.

(Quoted from the Laughter Club sessions.)

Laughter oxygenates all the cells of the body

According to Dr Robert Provine, ‘A hearty laugh raises the pulse rate and amplifies respiration, thus leading to increase in oxygen intake in all the cells of the body. We inhale larger quantity of oxygen which circulates more freely through the blood to every part of the body.’

Laughter is an internal jogging

According to Norman Cousins, ‘Laughter not only massages

all the organs of the body but also defuses tension in every part

of the body.  Laughter acts as anesthetic and alleviates

depression which is the cause of major diseases.  Muscles

of abdomen get worked out, as do the thorax, diaphragm and the

circulatory and endocrine system.  Hearty laughter enjoys most of the

benefits attributed to physical exercise.’

Laughter helps a person live longer and feel younger

Psychiatrist William Fry writes in his book Humour and Ageing, ‘It is

estimated that the impact on the heart of twenty seconds of

hearty laughter is comparable to three minutes of rowing,

which is supposed to be the best aerobic exercise for

re-conditioning the entire body and promote longevity.  Laughter

stimulates heart, supplies oxygen to lungs and energises the brain cells,

which promotes positive outlook in life.’