"When the world around you feels chaotic, you might cycle through every single one of these emotions in the 30 seconds it takes to check your phone, read a few headlines, and feel the return of the familiar pit in your stomach-the one that always asks, during desperate times, "What do I do with all this?" At one point or another, each of us experience this kind of emotional whiplash."
"Pauses are significant in yoga. Kumbhaka is the word for the pause between your inhalation and exhalation, and it's a moment that's believed to hold great potential. Because pausing-the negative self-talk, the doomscrolling, even the episode on Netflix-helps us return to what's actually taking place within us. It won't change your situation, but it will change how you show up to it."
Rapid shifts between overwhelm, confusion, anger, anxiety, and stress can occur in moments and create emotional whiplash. Pausing attention and negative habits offers a reliable tool for returning focus to internal experience. Kumbhaka, the pause between inhalation and exhalation, is highlighted as a moment of potential that does not change circumstances but alters responses. Simple practices include deep, slow breathing to ground the nervous system, low-to-the-floor gentle movements that require little energy, and other body movement strategies that help regulate emotion even when motivation is low.
Read at Yoga Journal
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