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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 2: We will throw colours. We will laugh. We will click pictures in white outfits. But will we pause?
This Holi, UNESCO Awardee and Harvard-certified, Ilashrei Anand, the academically trained Yoga Psychologist, asks a question that feels slightly uncomfortable and deeply necessary:
"What is the colour we've been carrying inside for years?"
Because beneath the gulaal and celebration, there are realities we rarely talk about.
- The daughter who is still trying to prove she's enough.
- The son who was never allowed to cry and now doesn't know how to love softly.
- The couple who look perfect on Instagram but sleep in emotional silence.
- The woman who over-gives so much that her body begins to protest.
- The man who provides for everyone but feels invisible in his own home.
"We celebrate burning Holika," Ilashrei Anand says, "but many of us never burn the anger, hurt, guilt, shame, or comparison that quietly shape our choices and relationships."
The Colours We Glorified
In today's India, we glorify hustle, we reward emotional suppression, we call over-functioning a responsibility, we call silence 'maturity' ; we call burnout 'success.' And slowly, the body begins to speak.
Chronic stress doesn't just stay in the mind. It alters sleep, digestion, hormones, and immunity.The gut tightens when we keep swallowing hurt. The throat strains when we silence truth for too long. The body gains weight when it feels unsafe, unheard. Fatigue sets in when we live in constant emotional vigilance.
"They are a cry for help from our bodies." explains Ilashrei Anand that "Mental health is not a luxury. It is the foundation, the core."
What Is Yoga Psychology ?
Long before clinical frameworks existed, ancient Yogic texts explored the architecture of suffering. Yoga Psychology is not anti-modern. It is ancestral.
While Western psychology primarily works with cognition and behaviour, Yoga Psychology extends into:
- Swadhyay or radical self-analysis
- Samskaras or stored mental impressions
- Karma patterns or repeating relational loops
- Chakra architecture or emotional centres influencing stress physiology
- Atman or the observing self beyond trauma
It does not just ask, "What are you thinking?" It asks, "Who are you beneath the wound?" "This is why the answers feel different," Ilashrei Anand guides. "Because we are not just addressing the mind. We are addressing identity, conditioning, and the deeper self that has been overshadowed by survival."
Yoga Psychology works on one simple but powerful principle: Every recurring pattern has a root cause. Why do we attract emotionally unavailable partners? Why do we fear confrontation? Why do we feel empty even if we have stability ? Why do we over-give and then feel resentful? Yoga Psychology answers these by inviting individuals to move from survival patterns to conscious living.
Therapy Is Not Weakness. It Is Growth.
People invest in gyms.In skincare. In gadgets. In travel. But hesitate when it comes to therapy. Not easily, Why? Because healing forces us to look at patterns we've normalised.
"Investing in therapy is not an admission of brokenness," Ilashrei highlights. "It is an act of leadership over your own life." The greatest growth gift you can give yourself is emotional literacy. Because when we heal, our relationships shift, our stress reduces, our communication deepens, our body feels lighter, not magically, but gradually.
This Holi, Colour Your Courage, Not Just Your Clothes.
Before we step out to colour others, lets pause and ask:
- What resentment have I been repainting for years?
- Where have I mistaken silence for maturity?
- Which pattern keeps returning because I refuse to confront it?
- Where do I need a boundary, not another compromise?
Because colours wash off. Patterns don't, unless we consciously break them.
About Ilashrei Anand
Ilashrei Anand is an academically trained Yoga Psychologist, who's also a humble UNESCO Awardee, Harvard-certified, and recipient of the 40under40 Businessworld Wellbeing Award. Over the past decade, she has guided thousands of individuals globally through personalised 1 on 1 therapy sessions, relationship counselling, root cause healing sessions ( psychosomatic) corporate wellness workshops, grounded in ancient Yogic psychology integrated with modern understanding. She's also honoured with the Kranti Yodha Award for her noble work in providing therapy sessions to underprivileged people on compassionate grounds during Covid. She is committed to making therapy more accessible by providing pro-bono and discounted sessions for under-privileged.
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