and present a greater risk of getting involved in the use of marijuana
and depression [29]. In intimate relationships relational self-control
regulates the risk of rejection and interdependence [30]. In yoga,
self-control is related to the abstentions (yama) [31]. The following
narrative illustrates how yoga helped contain irritability:
It [yoga] helps the way of thinking and acting. It helped a lot in
my day-to-day life. It's helping a lot to solve my problem of irritability
when I'm driving. (P13)