Feeling Angry or Emotionally Fragile? How Ayurveda Can Help
In Ayurveda, sadhaka pitta is akin to your emotional metabolism i.e. how you react emotionally to life. If you feel frustrated or disappointed in life your sadhaka pitta can become aggravated.
Sadhaka pitta is also connected to your ability to fulfil your innermost desires. If those innermost desires are frustrated or not the best for you, sadhaka pitta can also become aggravated.
Impatience, irritability, and discontentment with life are all signs of an aggravated sadhaka pitta.
Signs of an imbalanced sadhaka pitta include:
Feel insecure, doubting yourself, or feeling chronically anxious
Intolerance
Getting upset about small things
Getting easily irritated
Frequent angry outbursts
Emotional paranoia
Waking up frequently at night, often with a racing heartbeat
Being unable to get back to sleep
A thirst or dry mouth that no amount of water can satisfy
Indecisive and dissatisfying decision making
Heart palpitations
Ojas is the essence of life that makes you feel happy, strong and contented. When sadhaka pitta is out of balance, this can affect your ojas. In order to protect ojas, anger should be dealt with rather than dwelt upon. Negative feelings should be addressed not suppressed. We need to try and identify the source of the frustration, deal with it as rationally and calmly as we can and then move on with our lives as best we can. We can support this process by actively engaging in practices that balance and support the sadhaka pitta,
How to balance and support the sadhaka pitta:
Get to bed by 10 p.m.
Make sleep and rest a priority
Unless fasting, do not skip or delay meals
Avoid hot spicy foods, caffeine, sugar and alcohol
Prioritise soothing self-care – long baths, massage, aromatherapy, long walks, time with loved ones and friend, music.
Cultivate a meditation and soothing yoga practice
Introduce rose into your life. Rose calms emotions and soothes the heart. Use rose oil in baths, showers, fragrances, lotions, sprays and in diffusers and candles. Bring roses into your space. Use rosewater to freshen clothes and in cooking and in drinks. Buy tea with rose petals.
Introduce activities in your life that you really enjoy and look forward to.
To combat the hot, dry thirst that can sometimes accompany an aggravated sadhaka pitta, treat yourself to luscious, sweet juicy fruit such as mangoes, watermelon, papaya, and in particular pears.
Follow a cooling, pitta friendly diet.
Stay out of heated, strained situations whether emotionally heated or strained or hot environments.
Avoid emotionally draining people who leave you feeling drained or angry, negative people.
In so far as possible stop interactions with people who leave you feeling defeated and depleted or may be at the root of the sadhaka pitta imbalance – avoid them in person and on social media, in so far as you can, at least until you feel stronger and more able to deal with them.
Try to make sure you are around people who make you laugh and feel good as much as possible.