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| |  | Yoga | Home » » » » The Yoga of the Nine Emotions: The Tantric Practice of Rasa Sadhana | | | | | | | Description: | | A guide to changing negative emotions and promoting happiness using traditional Tantric and Ayurvedic practices
• Details the 9 Rasas that represent our basic emotions
• Offers emotional fasting exercises and daily routines for emotional well-being
• Shows how Rasa Sadhana can be integrated with other yoga practices
• Based on the teachings of Harish Johari
Rasas are the essence of our emotions that exist in both the body and the mind. The Tantric tradition recognizes 9 Rasas that represent our basic emotions: love, humor, wonder, courage, calmness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. Those who practice Rasa Sadhana learn to overcome negative emotions in order to pursue better health, enhanced spiritual growth, and enduring happiness.
Our emotions are continuously affected by the interplay of our senses, the elements, food, and the life force in our body. In The Yoga of the Nine Emotions, Peter Marchand offers many practical physiological and philosophical tools from Tantric and Ayurvedic traditions that can help readers change their emotional patterns. He explains the nature and purpose of each Rasa and how we can strengthen or weaken one Rasa through another. He also offers Ayurvedic cooking guidelines and daily routines for balancing sensory input and strengthening emotional health, including fasting from negative emotions as well as how to energize positive ones. As we master our emotions through the practice of Rasa Sadhana, we gain true control of our lives and our relationships with others.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Peter Marchand | | Paperback:
| 224 pages | | Publisher:
| Destiny Books | | Publication Date:
| April 21, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1594770948 | | Product Length:
| 0.39 inches | | Product Width:
| 0.39 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.39 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.88 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 4 reviews |
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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Working with your emotions - and having them work for you!Sep 15, 2006
By Sarah Tomlinson
This is a great book that introduces the spiritual practice known as Rasa Sadhana, or the Yoga of the Emotions. Rasa Sadhana is a practice which names the Nine Key Emotions in two categories: agreeable and disagreeable. The premise is to reduce one's need or involvement with the less agreeable emotions of anger, disgust, sadness and fear, and enhance the agreeable emotions of wonder, calmness, love, courage and joy.
Peter Marchand brings this practice to life with practical examples and suggestions to reduce or enhance these emotions. Of course reading the book isn't enough, it takes courage (one of the agreeable emotions) to begin to integrate these practices on a daily basis and reap the very positive and tangible results. However reading about them is the first step, it cultivates awareness and actually I felt remarkable peaceful after reading the chapter on CALM. This book is a must for anyone hoping to bring yogic awareness into one's emotional life, it will save you $$$ on psychotherapy and be an invaluable tool for mastering your emotions within interpersonal relationships, at home, at work and at play.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Fan-freaking-tastic. Be prepared to become a better human being...Nov 15, 2011
By bachcole
Every human beings needs to read this book. Every child needs to be taught from this book. If the Hinduism were toned down, this would actually be possible. The Hinduism is completely unnecessary. But if you don't have a problem with the Hinduism, which I don't, it gives a very valuable and uplifting slant to all of those gods and demons and such in Hindu mythology. They, the gods and demons and such in Hindu mythology, are all symbolic of inner principles, emotions, and the like.
But more importantly is the benefit to yourself and to everyone around you. You will get a very significant benefit as soon as you read the chapter dealing with the emotion that is messed up in you, if such is the case. If you don't have a messed up emotion or two, you can enhance the good emotions, and that will help you and everyone you ever meet. It will also help you to understand emotions in a way that Western psychology does not. I have a B.A. in psychology and it has done me no good for the past 39 years, either financially or emotionally.
I was an anger monger. I got my rocks off being angry. Unfortunately, anger is a demonic poison to the heart/soul/mind, the inner you. I am no longer an anger monger. Read this book, get happier, and pass it on. (:->)
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
ExcellentSep 20, 2007
By claudia
This book changes the way you view the world. However, it's also very practical. It gives you advice on how to make changes to improve your daily life. The bookcover looks mysterious, but most of it is not about religion, so no matter your faith you can get a lot out of it. I highly recommend it!
1 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 nothing too newNov 05, 2006
By David Kazmierzak
Some good observations which have been seen in many places before.Perhaps,however, Mr. Marchand's way of stating it may be just the way someone needs, but for me it was old material rehashed.
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