Meditation For Anger & Irritability

For the days when everything is irritating you. When your patience is thin, your inner critic is loud, and small things are landing much harder than they should.

Drawing on the wisdom of Ayurvedic energetic practice, this meditation moves gently through the body, softening and cooling the heat you have been holding. Not pushing the feeling away, but letting your system come down enough that you can breathe around it.

In Ayurveda, heat that builds like this often shows up in women who have been running at full capacity for a long time. It tends to speak through irritability, restlessness and a short fuse, and it is very common in midlife and perimenopause.

There is nothing here to get right. Find somewhere comfortable and let yourself be cooled. This practice is offered as support and is not a substitute for medical or professional care.

Credits: "The Inner Calling" composed by Music of Wisdom

Transcript

Welcome to this Pitta Balancing Meditation. Where we're going to take the time to cool and calm the system from the inside out. So when you're ready. Take a moment to come to find a comfortable position. Letting your back rest into the support behind you. Letting your hips grow heavy. Letting your shoulders soften. And letting your breath begin to flow. Letting your awareness start to spiral from the outer world to your inner world now. Noticing how you feel. Noticing what is present in this moment. And then when you're ready. Allow your awareness to move into your eyes. Allow your eyes to begin to soften and allow them to rest back into your head. Feeling firstly into your right eyeball. Can you sense your right eyeball? From your right eyeball, Begin to draw a line to your upper eyelid on the right side. And from the upper eyelid begin to draw a line to your eyebrow. From the eyebrow, Draw that line, Connecting it back down, Upper eyelid. Eyeball. Lower lid. And then to the point just under your right eye. Creating a circuit to wash your awareness through this right eye. Your eyelid, Your eyebrow. Noticing how it feels to give this part of yourself your full attention. Inviting yourself back into this part of you. We're just going to stay here in this circuit, Allowing our awareness to spread through that right side. Eyeball. Upper lid. Eyebrow Upper lid. Eyeball. Lower lid. To the point under your eye. Notice how it feels, Notice what sensations are coming up. Maybe even starting to notice as we spend some time here on the right side, You can start to feel a softening somewhere else in the body. The jaw, The shoulder. Maybe even all the way down to the soles of your feet. You can start to sense a change happening. I'm just doing one more circuit on that right side. And then when you're ready, Allowing your awareness to now move to the left side, Finding your left eyeball. Left upper eyelid. Eyebrow. Back to your left upper eyelid. Left eyeball. Lower lid to the point under your eye. Noticing if this left side feels any different now to the right. Can you sense a change from left to right? Then continue to draw that line on the left side and now wash your awareness through this part of yourself. Just spend a few more moments here. Noticing as you spend more time in this part of yourself that maybe you've never paid attention to before. Maybe you've never sensed your eyes, Your eyelids. How does it feel to live in this part of you now? And then when you're ready, From the eyes, We allow our awareness to now move into the brain. Sensing where in your head your brain is resting. Just like we did with the eyes, Begin to let your awareness wash through your brain. The heat of your intelligence. The place that holds the ability to transform the information you take in through your senses into knowledge, Wisdom, And experience. I'm starting to feel into the gray matter of your brain. Without worrying too much about where it is exactly. Let your body take you there. Let your awareness rest into the gray matter of the brain. Let your awareness wash through this part of yourself, Clearing and cooling any excess. Any imbalance. I'm restoring you back to perfect health. Washing your awareness through the left side of your brain. Washing your awareness through the right side of your brain. What part of the brain needs you most right now and just spend a few more moments there. Letting your awareness heal, Hold, And make space for these parts of yourself. And then from the brain, Allow your awareness to now drop into your heart. Feeling into the sensation of your heart beating. And as we feel into the heart, We also start to feel into your blood. Visualizing your blood moving around your body now. And as you visualize your blood, Picture it ruby red. Deep purple. Crimson. The colour of Shakti. The color of your passion. Let your awareness of your blood purify any imbalance and restore it back to its healthiest expression. The healthiest expression of your passion. Of your righteous anger. Not the type that destroys, But the type that creates more health and more love. Each and every red blood cell a ruby red and filled with supreme health. Each and every red blood cell. Picture it ruby red and filled with supreme health. Just spend a few more moments feeling, Sensing, Visualizing your blood. And from the blood. Let your awareness now move into your belly to find the belly fire. And just notice as you drop your awareness down. Where in the belly needs your attention most? Where are you most drawn to? Remember, It doesn't have to be a specific place. Let your body bring you where it needs you. There are lots of points here, Your liver, Your stomach, Small intestine. Let your body bring you where it needs you most. Now notice how it feels to live in this part of yourself. To hold this part of you. So much love, So much awareness. And just stay here for a few more moments. Where in your belly needs you. Give yourself fully to that part. And finally then, When you're ready. Allow your attention to move to your skin. Feeling into the entire map of your skin. The boundary layer of your body that protects you. Hold you. Literally keeps you together. And it's the part of you that allows you to feel the outside world. Just as we have that ability to translate information into knowledge in the brain. We hold the ability to translate touch into sensation through the skin. So let yourself rest into that ability now. Let yourself feel your skin. All the parts of it. Scanning your body, Scanning your skin. Noticing sensations. Noticing the feel and texture of your clothing as it rests against it. Noticing the parts of it that are resting into the support below you. Maybe even noticing the temperature of the air in the room that you're in. How does it feel to live fully in your skin? And for these final few moments, Taking a moment to notice where do you avoid Is there any part of your skin or your body that feels numb, Where the awareness feels stuck or sticky? And just let yourself rest your awareness in that place for a few more moments. Once again, Welcoming yourself, Welcoming energy, Welcoming your awareness back into those parts of you. Just as we have in all the parts of ourselves that we've journeyed through today, We allow our awareness to purify any imbalance and restore the skin back to its healthiest balanced expression. And just notice how that invitation of restoration, Of healing, Of balancing feels in your body. And when you're ready, Allowing the technique to fall away, Allowing your awareness to expand to your whole body now, Just to take a moment to feel the effects of your practice, To let the nutrients of your practice sink into every cell, Every part of the body. Noticing if you feel any different from when you first sat down today. And knowing that you have access to this at any point, Whenever you need it. Take the effects of this practice with you into your day. When you're ready, You can softly open the eyes. Take a soft gaze around your space. And move back into your day.