Anger and chaos cannot live in a peaceful mind because they oppose one another.
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Updated 6 years ago,March 17, 2019
Holding anger is a poison.
It eats you from inside.
Jack Antal
We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us.
But hatred is a curved blade.
And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
To the emotionally intelligent, however, anger is just an emotion which does not dominate their mental landscape.
The problem is, many people stow their anger because it is considered to be an unhealthy emotion.
Therefore, anger is likely to be expressed at an inopportune time if repressed.
Have you noticed how anger makes itself known when you least expect it?
You could be in your car driving and suddenly you are cut off in traffic.
If you feel less angry when you slow down, thats great, but thats not the goal.
This is about giving yourself a wider range of options to choose from in an emotionally charged situation.
Thich Nhat Hanh
My client Susan experienced anger recently while driving to work.
This took place early morning while she was driving to work.
After our discussion, I mentioned something that helped her to reframe the experience.
I pointed out how she has a way of being righteous, especially as someone who is socially conscious.
She let the motorist know he was in the wrong and felt victimized when he gestured to her inappropriately.
I then asked her to close her eyes and visualize the emotion of anger.
Where was it stored in her body?
What did it look like?
The good news is, the pain cleared in two days following more contemplative work by Susan.
The point is, anger like other emotions will find its way to the weakest point in your body.
In most cases, love and peace of mind is the answer, not anger and chaos.
How can I be sure you ask?
Look to your body since it knows the truth.
In contrast, The Healing Power Of Love overcomes fear, anger, anxiety and other lower emotional states.
When you are consumed by anger and chaos, you have lost your way.
However, what if the presence of anger was leading you back to love?
What Im proposing is, anger is a call for love, in most cases self-love.
You are no more an angry person than a tree believes itself to be a bird.
Anger is an emotional state a person can become stuck in if they do not attend to their pain.
Love is the way.
Moreover, love is the only way back to your core self.
Allow love to open your heart again.
Otherwise, your authentic self becomes muddied by the mirage of shameless emotions not symbolic of your true self.
