Angry outbursts?

Hello apeachpearl (and please ignore my response to your email re trouble posting in the forum – I should have looked here first!)

Sadly I can report I have personally experienced exactly the same issue. It also happened for me many years ago when I first started Bikram – in a similar time frame to you, in my first few weeks.

The good news is that it went away!

I remember at the time asking a personal development mentor of mine what she thought was going on, as I found it hard to place the cause with my yoga practice, since I was feeling so good physically. We ended up not attributing it to anything particularly ‘dark’ psychologically, but it seemed to be more due to intense physiological shifts.

At that time I had not done any intentional physical exercise for around 15 years (though I hadn’t been leading a sedentary life!) and 7 years before starting hot yoga I had broken my thigh bone and wrist and it was now starting to play up – so I knew I had to do something.

I was also quite depressed and worn out (separate issues with business & finance).

I tell you all this for background, as I think the yoga was a significant ‘release’ for me of stored up ‘angst’.

BUT … I am now convinced, having had some major breaks away from hot yoga over the last 13 years and re-experiencing similar emotions welling up on return, that it is mostly rapid dehydration and salt-loss aggravating my emotional state. So now if I encounter this type of feeling, I get some electrolytes and water into me asap!

(Use the search facility on the forum to find plenty of great info about re-hydration and electrolytes – it’s not hard and for you might be as easy as hydrating well before class and adding some sea-salt to your water)

Acclimatization to practicing in the heat may well take several weeks, during which time your body is not only changing, but you may be losing more water (& therefore salt) than normal, so I’d recommend some attention in this area first.

I hope that helps – and keep at it, I believe you will experience that “happy for no reason” and contentment with your ability to handle anything thrown at you that your husband won’t have to experience those outbursts – it will be the opposite!

Robert

Hello I to have experienced feelings of anger and rage hours after my practice. This is not some metaphysical condition. The yoga for whatever purpose creates a chain of events effecting my hypothalamus, pituatary, and adrenal which results in a release of an anger hormone cortisol or cortoistorid (sp) I almost feel as if I am over caffeinated and the hormone effect remains with me for awhile. I have found that taking 1/2 of aspirin evens out tenseness sometimes. I follow Swami Baba Ramdev who I would imagine may have a biochemical solution. But I repeat this is a biochemical issue due to release if the fight or fright hormones caused by yogic asana. It is not a meditative issue from a lost or hateful feeling from my past. It’s biochemical I can’t believe how many posts out there attribute these emotional reactions to some metaphysical thing it’s a biochemical issue

I guess I would like to hear if these biochemical hormonal releases eventually subside.

Rick