| We're all taught from a pretty young age to keep that | | | | drive through. Yes, through--not around, not over, not |
| one under lock and key. If it's not held in tightly, it's | | | | under, but through. We're meant to experience it, own |
| dangerous. It most likely has gotten you in trouble with | | | | it, use it. |
| parents, teachers, lovers, the list is long. | | | | Sometimes anger can lift us right out of depression. If |
| Then along came new age thinking and the law of | | | | we're stuck in a dark hole, just catching a thread of |
| attraction and anger got an even worse name. Now | | | | anger can be the release we need. We go from |
| you're just attracting more anger. You need to shift. | | | | depression to ranting and raving at the universe. And |
| You need to be positive. What you focus on grows. | | | | then comes the important part--we keep going, we |
| That's true. But..... | | | | don't stop here. We don't move in and set up shop. |
| But it's a little more complicated than that. Sometimes | | | | We reframe. We take ownership of what we're |
| you add salt to a sweet dish and it doesn't turn the | | | | creating. We move through into action. We ask our |
| dish salty, it brings the sweetness out. | | | | higher selves in meditation "what am I meant to learn |
| Anger has a legitimate place in our lives. It's when we | | | | from this?" "How do I best move through this?" "What |
| misuse it or direct it randomly that we get ourselves | | | | would you have me do now?" We understand that |
| into trouble. | | | | everything in our lives serves a purpose and our |
| Anger is a place we drive through, it's not a parking lot. | | | | purpose is always to step into light. |
| All too often we drive into the Anger Parking Space | | | | Sometimes the path of anger is the fastest way from |
| and we stay as long as we can. We vent. We rage. | | | | darkness into light. Explore your anger. Explore it in the |
| We yell at others. We feel justified. There's a | | | | privacy of your own mind, in your journal, in the silence |
| deliciousness in the negativity. | | | | of your inner self. Don't exploit it or spew it onto others. |
| We're not meant to stay in anger. We're meant to | | | | Use it for your highest purposes. |