We are beginning to see what our anger can do to relationships and, even more so, to ourselves. This feeling/seeing/knowing is for our personal development and understanding of energy and responsibility. Believe it or not – our increasing awareness is good, albeit sometimes uncomfortable. Learning to know ourselves is necessary to humanity’s evolutionary progress. If we slow down, we can feel the emotions/beliefs we hold in our bodies. Our emotions/beliefs can heal when we feel and acknowledge them.
Anger can be insidious if left unchecked. It demands your life force energy and feeds off it. Some people allow their anger to become their identity, so they constantly look for excuses to justify their rage or someone/something to direct their anger to. They wear their anger like a badge. It helps the holder to feel special, and it masks their role & responsibility in the drama. Anger, out of balance, can blind us to truths. It also can keep us in a cycle of denial, feelings of entitlement, or victimhood. These unattended thoughts disrupt our natural flow and block our good.
Science has proven that unhealed anger and other repressed emotions can significantly diminish our health. They can cause illness. Anger and hate short-circuit the connection to our Hearts Wisdom, our clarity, and our life force energy. Anger allowed to fester becomes a noxious weed in the Garden of our Lives. Our society does not teach us to deal with emotions in a healthy manner. We learn to deny/suppress the less than pretty feelings. This practice has not served humanity well. All emotions, including anger, serve as a barometer. Our feelings let us know where we are in our beliefs and thoughts. They let us know the direction that we are heading. Anger is a secondary emotion. There are other emotions at the core of it. Helplessness, shame, hopelessness, fear, and jealousy are examples of core emotions. If allowed to remain unaddressed, they can erupt into something destructive to others and ourselves.
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