Full Circle
Leahm on 4:20 pm June 7th, 2010 / 1 Comment »
Allow me to present an interesting–to me, at least–follow-up to some of my previous posts on exercise and on anger. When posted, they didn’t necessarily have anything to do with each other. But I’ve been observing some interesting stuff… As mentioned in the exercise post, now that I’m deeper into yoga study, I rarely go to the gym or do aerobic exercise. Which is nice in a lot of ways, as it had become a real chore to think about scheduling in gym time. And while many times I felt better afterwards, there were increasingly times that I didn’t feel very good during or after my workout. (I think I was experiencing mild panic attacks on the elliptical trainer, actually!) Anyhoo, later came my post on anger and irritation, and how I’ve been experiencing this a lot recently. Granted, I am a Pitta, so I guess anger/irritation can somewhat come along with the territory (when provoked). Add to this the fact that we’ve been in the high heat of summer, when Pitta is at its meatiest point. One plus one equals two, duh. In and amongst all of this observation of my emotional state is that I have also been frequently feeling a prickly, icky heat and sweat in my face, which I’ve chalked up to an anger/Pitta imbalance. Ok. Facts laid out. So, last Friday, I went to the gym and hung out on the elliptical trainer listening to fun music and reading silly magazines for nearly an hour. Just a few minutes into it I was like, aw, yeah, this feels GOOD. And I tell you, up until yesterday, when some things occurred that tickled my irritant hot spots, I hadn’t experienced the face sweat thing. So, sometimes aerobic exercise may be just the energy-moving block that does the trick. Sweet! Free therapy!
On June 7th, 2010 at 6:39 pm Leslie Said:
I can sooo relate. Sounds like you’re finding a good balance! Isn’t it funny how we access and express different kinds of energy? During the TT program, I’ve also been playing around very much with that “exercise” balance between gym stuff and yoga, and wondering whether I’ve been using yoga partly to just “undo” the gym stuff, which exacerbates my imbalances. But yoga very much feeds into the other activities, at least for me, and not vice versa. Curious. A lot more of my physical and mental energy is going into yoga these days, sort of, but I still need that endorphin high now and then, and vigorous movement and sweat (a person can only do but so many sun salutations, no?). Plus, I just get bored doing the same thing over and over, regardless of what it is. Variety, spice, life.