 how we experience emotion that mechanism is given in the natashastra and that is elaborated in many other texts for rasas to get expressed you need a cause that cause is called vibhau that vibhau result into certain expression certain symptom for example, if joke is a vibhau or a cause laughter or movement of shoulder these are anubhau these are the symptoms and then there are sancharibhau as well because the laughter can have some finer emotions emotions of young emotions of helplessness or emotions of real joy there can be different flavors different shades of hasya and associated to the different shades there are various emotions these are called sancharibhau and combination of vibhau anubhau and sancharibhau result into saiyog and for rasas to get expressed in life in the today moments we need to have that saiyog. So, it is through the saiyog bhavas that rasas are manifest and our ability to experience different emotions and express those appropriately that is the essence of emotional intelligence and what can help us to manage emotions what can help us to decide what is the limit for me to experience a particular rasa in a situation that decision is done by buddhi the intellect. So, you might recall we have discussed this chariot model of human self which is taken from the Kathopanishad it clearly says that senses are like horses of chariot reen is the man the reen with which we control the reen with which a chariotier and the chariotier who is holding the reen is intellect the self the real self the atman is the one which is standing which is giving direction to the chariotier. Chariotier is like intellect when chariotier is smart it can hold man in some way which can direct the horses of senses to the desirable directions how we can do that what are the processes which can help the chariotier to give right direction to the horses what is how to strengthen the reen which yoga has many interventions for them. So, let us look at how yoga helps in gaining emotional balance. In fact, all eight angas a stang we say the appendages or limbs all eight limbs help us in gaining the emotional balance in their unique ways yum and niyam yum is the moral instruction and niyam is the self purification process. We have already have a detailed discussion about the yum niyam earlier yum said the boundary conditions ahinsa satya aparigraha astey brahmacharya these five yamas which essentially are the core principle with which this life this existence operates this existence works only because of these five yamas ah that set the boundary condition. Once the boundary conditions are set our self management boundaries are also set and our self management boundary are the first inherent things because for all self management or career management we need to identify what is non-negotiable in my disposition what is something which I am not going to compromise about which I am not going to negotiate about which I am not going to try out things yamas give those non-negotiables. So, lot of emotions are naturally get under control ah niyamas are the ways for us to improve further tapas ishwar pranidhan swadhyay shaj is cleansing santosh is containment ishwar pranidhan is surrendered to the universal order these are the ways of maintaining and cleansing our inner conditions these are not only related to the mind inner conditions these are not related to cleansing of body and that helps ah preparing our inner ambience to manage our emotions asana asana is a psychosomatic alignment with brain wave coherence in a very precise definition we can say this about asanas asanas brings coherence in brain waves these are the things coming out in several studies asanas lower the stress hormones and release happy hormones and in this way asana can help in controlling emotional balance pranayam we had a complete session on pranayam as well which is about relaxation and regulation through breathing we looked at how fascinating this act of breathing is it is voluntary act but it is necessary act this is what connects our sympathetic and parasympathetic system and whole ah process of managing self is about managing the balance of sympathetic and parasympathetic system so breathing which is the core act act or which is the core seat of pranayam can help in balancing this ah system and in this process it helps to gain and maintain emotional balance pratyahar sense organs or becoming inward focus in terms of our senses we looked at in the pratyahar session as there are baha indris means the senses which look at outward so we have intrinsic indris intrinsic senses because of the intrinsic senses we are able to watch or listen things in dreams even when our eyes are closed we may not be in the in the sleep in the dreaming phase we may not be able to listen something which is going on outside but we can listen something which is which we have seen which which is coming in our dream so there are intrinsic indris closing the outer indris and awakening or just focusing on the intrinsic indris that is the sense of pratyahar and pratyahar is purposely stepping back our right mode of consciousness and naturally that helps in gaining emotional balance how it works we looked at that whole mechanism in the last session dhyan that is the quieting of mind this is a great space for the emergence of intelligence when ah when the external senses are not processed and internal internal senses are still alert in that state the dhyan happens and when dhyan happens emotional balance naturally comes to our life samadhi we cannot discuss it in great detail about samadhi because it is much deeper experience nonetheless we can see it is transcendent of emotions and individualized cognition we become available to the universal intelligence in samadhi the systemic intelligence in samadhi we become aware of so we can look at all steps of yoga all appendages or limbs of yoga helps in gaining and maintaining emotional balance