Take a moment now to reflect on a recent situation in which you felt anger. How did you deal with it? Which of the 3 Ways to Express Anger did you engage in? Pause and take a breath. Remember an example - from your own life or that you have witnessed in someone else - of turning anger inward. What was the result? Did it resolve the situation at hand? Did it create a ripple effect of turmoil? For who? How? Take a moment to remember Continue Reading
3 Ways to Express Anger – #3
3. They (we) simply allow this neutral, powerful, creative energy to move. Do you remember what the function of our emotions is? The role of our emotions is to cleanse us - to wash our 'now' experiences through us and transport us fresh into our next moment. Our emotions are like a river, carrying us from one moment - one experience - to the next. They rinse our experiences through us, cleansing us as they do. When we Continue Reading
3 Ways to Express Anger – #2
2. They (we) turn it outward - violently. We allow it to spin out of control. We lash out with it, so ashamed that we are feeling it that we double and triple it in proportion to itself. We fight, we fight with words, we undermine, we cut, we shoot, we steal, we rape, we … These 2 Ways to Express Anger are rife because we, as humanity, haven't evolved to recognize and practice the third. Now it's time. We are capable. Continue Reading
3 Ways to Express Anger – #1
1. They (we) turn it inward. This results in depression, apathy, guilt, shame, moroseness, distancing, disconnection from society, addictions and even suicide. ____________ Listen to this post as a 'podcast'! '3 Ways to Express Anger' - #1 recorded using the omni-dimensional 'Star Microphone' by Wehnersound. ____________ * This post is #14 in a series of syndicated excerpts from The Power of Anger – Blasting Through Continue Reading
3 Ways to Express Anger
It becomes evident, now, why so many of us have learned to be afraid of anger - ours and other people's. There are 3 Ways to Express Anger. If we look around us on this precious planet, we notice that the first 2 of these 3 ways are predominant. Most people, in most situations involving anger, will express it in one of the first 2 ways. ____________ It becomes evident why so many of us have learned to be afraid of anger Continue Reading
Time Lags
Is there a time lag between when you actually begin to feel anger - and when you notice that you are feeling it or you did feel it, in the past? Does it take some time for you to awaken to its presence? Do you sense that sometimes you don't notice your anger at all? What do you feel 'instead of' anger? How do you mask it with other emotions - more 'acceptable' emotions? Or with activities, behaviors, speech or distracting thoughts? Continue Reading
Recognizing the 3 Purposes of Anger in Your Life
Take a moment to reflect on a recent situation in which you felt anger. Which of these 3 Purposes was the anger fulfilling? 1. Was the anger rising inside of you endeavoring to alert you to a boundary that had been breached? And / or to the need to create a boundary … precisely … 'there'? 2. Was the anger present inside of you endeavoring to alert you to this: that unless you erect or fortify a boundary, it is about to be breached? Was Continue Reading
3 Purposes of Anger – #3
3. The third way in which people begin to experience their anger is purely pro-active. This arisal of anger is how our soul entices us to grow. When we feel frustrated. When we feel 'fed up'. When we feel like we can't stand a situation any more - this is our soul nudging us to stretch out into a larger experience of ourselves and of life. Anger is what motivates us to grow. ____________ Anger is what motivates us Continue Reading
3 Purposes of Anger – #2
2. The second way in which most people - as they become more sensitive and alert to the nuances of anger - begin to recognize that they are experiencing anger is this: Before a boundary is about to be breached. They are attentive enough to their inner guidance - their inner wisdom - to recognize that their anger is a premonition. It is giving them foresight, encouraging them to erect a boundary before it is overstepped. As people Continue Reading
3 Purposes of Anger – #1
There are three distinct reasons why anger arises. Anger is an intelligence. It is our higher wisdom - our soul, our 'higher self' - speaking to us. Until now, we've not recognized this. And so we've not realized what it is saying. 1. The first way in which most people begin to recognize that they are experiencing anger is this: After a boundary has been breached. The purpose of anger in this case is to alert them to where Continue Reading