Humanity is infantile in its relationship with anger. We discovered fire - thousands of years ago - and yet we haven't mastered anger. Our lack of understanding and respect for anger cripples us - individually, collectively and in relation to our environment. We lash out and we lash in. We do not - yet - use anger constructively as our ally. This is what this book is about. Changing this. Teaching humans how to befriend their anger - Continue Reading
Your Relationship With Anger – Part Two
____________ How Do You Relate To Anger? Reflect on your recent experiences - when someone was angry 'at' or near you. How did you respond? What did you feel inside? Reflect on your recent experiences - when you felt angry 'at' someone, an event, or something. How did you feel inside? How did you respond? What did you do? How did you feel then? Become more 'self aware'. Notice how you relate to anger - how you feel, how you Continue Reading
Your Relationship With Anger – Part One
Anger has been given a bad rap. For those of us who have grown up in a religiously tinged society, we have learned to perceive anger as something of disrepute; something to be avoided; something sinful; even something dangerous. Anger has traditionally been equated with the devil - with wrath. What are your attitudes about anger? What are your conditioned beliefs about anger? How do you relate to anger? Do you cower in its presence? Continue Reading
What Anger Is – Part Two
When uninterrupted, emotions 'arc' - just like a storm. First, there is a chill in the air, a gentle stirring. Then there is a mounting of energy, a building up of intrinsic power. Then there is a peak, a crest. Then there is a descent, into nothingness, as if the 'arc' never was. Yet … the air is gentler, softer, clearer after the storm. As humans in our codependent culture we have been taught to identify with our emotions and thus Continue Reading
What Anger Is – Part One
Like all of the emotions, anger is simply energy. Energy with a purpose. Emotions themselves are neutral - they are neither good nor bad. Like all else in this universe, it is how we relate to them that determines their outcome. Emotions are like enzymes. Their function is to digest our life experience - literally to break it down into smaller 'bits' and assist us to assimilate and grow from it. Just like food. We have a vast array Continue Reading
The Power of Anger – Introduction
If only we could access our anger and not be afraid of it … If only we could clear out our vast reservoirs of unexpressed anger … We could change the world in an instant. A mere blink. Anger is the most misunderstood of all the human emotions. And it is this very misunderstanding that is holding us back in our evolution as a species - and in the dawning of our co-creative relationship with the environment. If only … We can … Continue Reading
The Power of Anger – Syndicating the Book
Last week I witnessed a wave of Clients experiencing a challenge with anger – three in fact. As I shared with them several excerpts from The Power of Anger book, I realized that it is timely to ‘syndicate’ it – that is, to share the chapters of this book sequentially, here on URLight. I anticipate that I’ll intersperse sequential excerpts from the book with ‘Commentaries’ – Insights that arise in me, personally, or in relation to anger in Continue Reading
Subtle Energy Fields – Part 1
A blog is a web log – a web-based journal, the focus and content of which the author chooses. I’d like to open a new Category at URLight – ‘Ariole’s Insights’. In essence, all of the posts at URLight are my insights. Many of them are excerpts from my Books, and some of them are written ‘in the moment’ as a way of sharing my inspirations as I receive them. I recognize the universality of human Continue Reading
Abdication of Power – Part 2
When we retain our power, on the other hand, we become response-able again. We both maintain within ourselves the wisdom that is always there, that always knows, if we listen deeply enough, what it that we must do to pro-actively ensure our well-being and responsively course correct when it is amiss. And we retain the 100% responsibility for our outcome. This is frightening for many people simply because they haven’t practiced Continue Reading
Abdication of Power – Part 1
We have been taught – at least since several generations back – to abdicate our power and thus our responsibility to others: to others ‘outside’ of us, rather than to rely on and trust our own innate abilities, wisdom, and discernment. We have been taught – without even a word being spoken – at an early age to acquiesce the well-being of our body to a doctor; our teeth to a dentist; our mental health to a psychologist; our Continue Reading