A year or so back I had attended a course, it was what you can loosely call based on personality developement (tht is not the right word, but that is what comes to my mind).
It was a 3 day course, and on the last day, we had a small session wherein, there were around 50 of us in a room (hall is a better word), there was loud blaring music. And then we were all instructed to shout, basically they instructed us to take out all the hatred, the past hurt that was buried in our hearts/our minds from the past experiences we had with people. They wanted us to shout/scream/curse/do whatever it takes, but take out all the negative feelings/thoughts that we had carried in our hearts since our birth. The music was so loud that you couldnt really hear your neighbour also. So basically we were all shouting in an uninhibited way.
This session lasted for about 15-30 minutes. And then the music was shut down. Later few of the participants were asked to share their experience of those 30 minutes.
The gist of what people said was that over the years, they have all been hurt by someone or the other, their siblings, sometimes their parents, sometimes their friends. And all this hurt had piled on in their mind and somehow effected the way they behaved with them. But up until now they were never able to voice their hurt/share their pain with someone and over the years it had piled up. It alternatively surprised me and saddened me to see that people generally miss out on some good friend/companion with whom they can share their happiness/sorrow. All these ppl wanted was someone to whom they could pour their sorrows to..But that was not to be.
A year later, I saw this movie Metro, life in a metro, and it had used a similar concept wherein the heroine screams and lets out her anger..the message is clear, dont harbour negative feelings in your heart for long, let them out, vent them out, share with someone, do something !!.
PS: Couldnt think of any better heading..maybe trying to grab user attention !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUA1SRDUQxY&feature=related
its a very long video, but watch it from 7 minutes onwards.
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I tried doing that a few times... but all I achieved was scaring some people around me :). Tried doing that in the jungle once and now I hear there are no birds in there anymore (alright that was taking it too far!!)
As an after thought, I think deep breathing with pushed exhales would be a more sociable way to let go... and if anybody does get curious, you can always blame it on baba ramdev :-D
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