Here is a simple guide map for empowering you through healthy anger … 1. Notice when you are feeling anger. 2. Ask yourself: "Which of the '3 Purposes of Anger' is this?" (Has a boundary been violated; is a boundary about to be breached; is my soul calling me to grow?) 3. Notice any tendency in you to direct this anger inward or aggressively outward. Get yourself into your Observer Continue Reading
The Soul’s Calling
Anger is always the soul calling us. Either it is identifying to us - through our experience of pain and betrayal - where a boundary needs to be created to repair and thus to preserve our integrity. Or it is identifying to us pro-actively - through evoking our anger or even our rage prior to a potential boundary breaching event - that a boundary we have in place is non-negotiable. Or - our anger, one of our most valuable inner Continue Reading
Where Your Anger Hides – Part Three
Take a moment to imagine a future situation in which anger arises in you - either 'provoked' by an outer circumstance, or simply because your soul is asking you - inviting you - to grow. Notice yourself making a more empowered choice - choosing to respond to the message of your anger and either create a boundary where it was breached, create a boundary before it is breached, or follow the fresh, new guidance of your soul. How do you 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
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