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Bhaava 1
1.1 Learn the glorious vision of the Upanishads surrounding ‘rasa’ and ‘ananda’ (fullness). 1.2 Get an overview of the Navarasa theory of emotion from Natyashastra which is the foundational text for all arts – music, dance, theatre in India. 1.3 Listen to the story from Bhagavatam( an ancient text) of Dhruva, a five-year-old child who felt abandoned by his father and was blessed with a mantra. 1.4 Homework for chanting the mantra
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Bhaava 2
2.1 Understand the significance of being the one who is a ‘suhridaya’, the one with a sensitive heart, capable of experiencing all emotions and hence eligible for self-knowledge. 2.2 Learn about the 9 basic emotions spoken of in the Natyashastra with no judgment on any negative emotion. 2.3 Recognise eight facts about the manifestation of emotions. 2.4 See the relevance of a Bhagavad Gita verse (6.5) in being one’s own best friend or an enemy. 2.5 Adopt the simple practice of talking to yourself lovingly with acceptance 2.6 Accept a two-week challenge of expressing and no complaining.
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Bhaava 3
3.1 Clearly see the connection between your thought and emotion. 3.2 Discover how we build subjectivity and hence misery by living in our own world (Jiva Srishti) rather than living in an objective world (Ishvara Srishti). 3.3 Identify 10 types of certain patterns of thinking which are thought distortions that contribute to your subjectivity. 3.4 Learn to challenge these patterns and experience a transformation in your emotions through changing the context. 3.5 Learn four questions that align your thoughts with reality and do homework.
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Bhaava 4
4.1 Reflect on your homework and see how innocuous ways of thinking became unhelpful patterns. 4.2 Understand 3 aspects of Emotional growth as Emotional security, emotional independence, and emotional strength and what these entail. 4.3 Discover the glory of the order of all emotions as Ishvara’s principles of emotion. 4.4 Practice witnessing as well as experiencing. 4.5 Learn what it means to dance with emotion rather than resist.
Bhaava – Discover the dance of emotion – 3
3.1 Clearly see the connection between your thought and emotion.
3.2 Discover how we build subjectivity and hence misery by living in our own world (Jiva Srishti) rather than living in an objective world (Ishvara Srishti).
3.3 Identify 10 types of certain patterns of thinking which are thought distortions that contribute to your subjectivity.
3.4 Learn to challenge these patterns and experience a transformation in your emotions through changing the context.
3.5 Learn four questions that align your thoughts with reality and do homework.
