Story.
A little boy was playing with his little ball when a big boy came along and took away his little ball.
The little boy cried and felt an angry feeling come over him. He felt like a big cheetah was coming out of his chest. He picked up a shovel and swung it out towards the boy. The big boy then felt An angry feeling in himself and picked up a shovel and swung it at the little boy as he felt like a cheetah was coming out of his chest. The shovel hit the other boy between the eyes and cut his head. The teacher cAme over and looked at the big boy holding the shovel. She felt a cheetah rising in her chest and she roared at the boy with the shovel. The mother of the big boy was walking in to pick the big boy up and she too felt a cheetah rising up in her chest as she saw the teacher shouting at her big boy. She roared at the teacher. Now there were 4 cheetahs running aimlessly around the yard. Everyone looked angry and children started to cry. The nurse arrived and reigned all the cheetahs back in. Now there was calm but everyone was miserable. The nurse told everyone to go and sit down and take some deep breathes. So the little boy, the big boy , the teacher, the mother and the nurse sat down together. They all took some deep breathes. The children stopped crying. The cheetahs went back to the deep part of the jungle within the boys, the teacher's and the mothers heart. They smiled at each other and the nurse whispered, 'your cheetahs are calm now. Never let your cheetah get the better of you and run around uncontrollable or sadness will follow.'
'Keep it tame within yourself by thinking of love instead'. The feelings of the cheetah riding in our chest can begin to melt away if we choose to breathe and let it go again when it cans from.
(Yoga philosophy teaches us that the 'Chitta' can be calmed whenever we choose it to be and replaced with love'. )
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