Letting go of Anger and Grief Through Yoga (Paul Denniston)
Channel: CJ Liu
Date: 07/01/2022

CJ Liu interviews Paul Denniston on this book "Healing through Yoga".   We discuss how the body and mind are connected in grief, why the body holds onto grief, and offers different techniques for you to address your grief. 

What’s a healthy way to release anger?

Anger, like any emotion, needs motion. We have been taught to suppress. When I’m angry, I scream in the car, I pound my fists on a pillow, hit a punching bag, exercise so I can sweat, I go on a rant, I write a letter about how angry I am. Grief Yoga finds healthy ways to release challenging emotions and anger as fuel for healing. 

Why do I need to take time dealing with challenging emotions, like sadness and anger?

If you don’t deal with them, they don’t go away. You can’t heal what you don’t feel. If you don’t deal with them, they’ll deal with you. 

Learn about Grief https://youtu.be/11nAQ4DEOxg?t=316 

Techniques to try: 
https://youtu.be/11nAQ4DEOxg?t=1986 (Grief)
https://youtu.be/11nAQ4DEOxg?t=876 (Grief)
https://youtu.be/11nAQ4DEOxg?t=2191 (Anger)



How is the body and mind connected in grief? 

Our body reacts to our thoughts. Our thoughts react to our body. Physical health and mental health are connected. We’re this bundle of energy reacting sometimes positively with one another, and sometimes negatively. Many times, when we’re ill and sick, our thoughts get worrisome and afraid and then our body tightens up. Or our body tightens up and our mind goes, what's wrong. It’s important to develop a compassionate connection for the mind and body to connect and work well together in unity to find healing. 

Why do I need to express it physically?

Because you feel it physically. We can deny we feel it physically, we can think it’s all in our head, but if you’re willing to feel what’s going on in your body, you will be able to find your pain there.

Why do I need to go into the pain?

The pain has a message for you. The pain is there for a reason. Pain can be a warning sign, and pain can be a communication sign.  You don’t want to leave the pain unattended. 

Why does our body hold onto pain?

Because we don’t know how to express emotions. We don’t know how to release it. We’re not taught how to express challenging emotions. 

How can you use yoga as a tool for healing?

There are so many physical things that can exhaust us. When dealing with loss or hard things, we’re often exhausted already. Yoga means union, and the heart of yoga is about compassion. And Grief Yoga gives voice to the pain, hurt, anger and regrets inside of us to give them a clear voice to express themself to move the pain through.

What types of healing happens through yoga?

All types. There are so many times we get tense around something that happens in our body.  Maybe we get pain or illness. It’s important to see a doctor and get the medical aspect handled, but how many of us tense up around the back pain and headache? How many let our mind go nuts how this will only get worse. Our mind can say the cruelest things. Yoga can help reverse some of that and bring peace into our body. If you have a loss, it will help tremendously to help with that loss, by releasing the feelings, the anger, the regrets, the what ifs. 


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