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
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
Identifying ‘3 Ground Rules for Moving Anger’ in Your Life – Part 1
In what ways do you already move anger - through Body Movement, Voice or Creativity - that you might not have realized until now? What ways arise in your awareness in this moment that you feel open to exploring? When will you? Set a date with yourself - before you chicken out. There's nothing to fear - except fear itself. Moving anger - as long as you follow the 3 Ground Rules - can not hurt you. Try this. Your illusion of fear towards Continue Reading
3 Ground Rules for Moving Anger – #3
3. Don't hurt anything else. This is my personal value system. I know that everything is consciousness. If this fits for you, own this 3rd Rule. Nature is dying, quite literally, for us to release our pent up anger, pain and sorrow. As we do, She knows we'll be refreshed. Our Vision will be clear. Our Hearts will be open. We will awaken - as if from a long dream, a nightmare - and remember that we love each other - Continue Reading
3 Ways to Move Anger Energy Constructively – #3
3. Creativity For some people pure body movement does the trick. For others, its anger carried out via the sound of their voice. For others, (and some of these same people, at different times), it's creative acts that are the best vehicle for expelling anger from inside the body. Paint - fully and unapologetically - with smears of red. Throw clay on your potter's table. Gouge gardener's claws into the earth. Dance it Continue Reading
3 Ways to Move Anger Energy Constructively – #1
1. Body Movement The anger energy surging through us just wants to move. Its job - just like the water surging within a river - is to flow through and out of us. As it does, it will leave us refreshed - renewed. One of the most effective Ways to allow this energy to move is through our body. If you are innately a physical person, you will love this. Allowing anger energy to move through the body can be effective through Continue Reading
3 Ways to Move Anger Energy Constructively
Once we realize that there is a 3rd, 'new' option, we begin to discover a wealth of opportunity. For there are infinite ways to Move Anger Energy Constructively. As we recognize that anger energy - like all of the emotions - is meant to cleanse our being (our body, heart, spirit and mind), we enter an entirely new realm - largely uncharted by humanity. This realm is highly creative, inspiring and beneficial. It liberates us. Continue Reading