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Insight

An answer to irritation

James Anderson

Abstract
In the integral context, every detail leads to the whole. This short article looks at irritation but not
in isolation. Working on one blemish can open a door to changing our entire nature. Life-review
in full consciousness is an effective solution but that same consciousness needs to be poised and
vigilant through all the interactions of day-to-day life.

Integral Yoga begets transformation in detail in this malaise we call life. A bitter heart
so even the little things in life are swept up in will always lead to irritation. Sometimes it
its embrace. As our nature is so interlinked, is something we feel we have to live with,
no weakness can be addressed in isolation. as there appears to be no obvious solution.
For most of us, irritation is regarded as just
a minor aberration and so it largely passes We all go through life with varying degrees
through almost unnoticed. But our work of irritability. It is taken for granted: ‘nobody
is not complete until every crease in our is perfect’, we rightly say. Therefore very few
nature is completely effaced. So these little make an attempt to resolve this particular
details truly matter in the integral context. affliction in their life. Maybe it is because
In any case, irritation may start in a small the demands are too great. It is something
way but expand drastically given sufficient that sits below our more violent outbreaks.
provocation. If the right trigger is found, It is evident that we have to dig much deeper
irritation can easily get whipped up into a to rectify something like this. A cosmetic
fury. Irritation is something which breeds approach is usually adopted but a piecemeal
and lies underneath the emotion of anger. solution will not work if we look upon this
problem from an integral perspective. If total
If irritation doesn’t transfer to anger, it will eradication is the aim then nothing less than
inevitably become dormant and suppressed a complete overhaul of our being will be
and so piles up, leaving negativity to accumulate required.
in the nature. Over time it may leave a sour
sense of discontent which is totally inimical to Irritation bases itself upon bedrock of dis-
our well-being. It becomes another ingredient satisfaction. So often we are not fulfilled and

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