Vihar

Positivity and happiness through recreation

- Priyamvada waghware

There are four basic emotions - happiness, sadness, fear, and anger. Happiness brings rewards; sorrow leads to punishment, and fear begets anger.

Emotions can be under our control. The way is to detach from the disturbing situations and attach to the unchanging, i.e. love the divinity! Yoga prescribes various techniques to generate positive emotions, but the main four pillars that Yoga talks about are, Ahar, Vihar, Achar and Vichar. These are an aid to living a healthy life till the last breath by maintaining an enthusiastic mind. Ahara is food - it includes quantity, purpose, time of consumption. It also includes our thoughts, which are food for the mind. Vihar is recreation to generate positivity and happiness. Achar is our disciplines and behaviour and Vichar is the resultant thought process.

The topic at the Couples Class was Vihar - a way to consciously relax oneself.

Our Guest Speaker was Mrs. Namita Bodaji, a recognized Bharatnatyam exponent and a yoga practitioner trained from The Yoga Institute.