After the Storm
My World hums with the green-ness of
Spring!
What joy!
My World hums with the black-brown earth,
the life within yearning to spring forth.
My World hums!
What joy!
My World hums the blue-ness of the sky
and water.
What joy!
My World hums the gold of the flowers,
the warmth of the sun.
What joy!
My World hums in blues, greens and golds!
What Joy!
Anger is a feeling of powerlessness. However, within your anger is a
tremendous sense of power, purpose, passion and meaning because when you
feel angry, it’s because you wanted to do something and you were
blocked from doing it. People usually think of emotions as good or
bad and they think that anger is a bad emotion, that you shouldn’t have
it. That if somehow you feel angry, then you are not a nice person, or
you’re not a spiritual person. From my vantage point, it is a rather
good emotion because if you analyze the frequency of anger, it is an
emotion that churns. It is trying to get you off your duff to do
something about the situation. The truth is that no emotion is
negative unless we refuse to feel it. That’s when it becomes
destructive. We are only required to feel our emotions and release them.
Even the most beautiful emotion of love will become destructive if its
blocked and not actually felt. So, anger is what it is, and if you
judge yourself for feeling angry, then you are going to think that anger
is bad. We like to feel the so-called positive emotions and take credit
for the realities that they create. But what happens when you refuse to
feel and release the so-called negative emotions like anger because you
are afraid it’s going to be painful? Well it’s your emotion and you
created it, so where is it going to go? If you don’t feel it and release
it, you will either stuff it in your physical body, or into your
extended body called your reality. So when you swallow your anger,
or stuff it down because you want to be a nice person and you don’t want
to show it, over time your body might respond with symptoms of pain and
inflammation as it is trying to say to you that it is not able to put
up with the anger that has gotten stashed in it. If this happens, here are seven ways to deal with it.
1. Release all judgments and criticisms about yourself. The purpose of
judgments is to make you not feel which is what got you in the situation
in the first place. 2. Forgive your body for having to make your life miserable in order to bring this to your attention.
3. Honor and own that this is your creation in order for you to pay
attention to, and see how you have given your power away to other people
and circumstances to offer you the opportunity to step into your power
now. 4. Give your body tremendous love as part of the healing process without any judgments or resentments at it for limiting you. 5. Give your body basic kinesthetic pleasure as part of loving it. Perhaps a gentle massage, energy healing or a mineral bath.
6. Address your anger. This is probably the most important step in
releasing that feeling of powerlessness out of your psyche so that you
are able to step into your power. In my work, I carry people through
visualization techniques in order to accomplish this. 7. Promise
your body that you are going to love it and care for it and you are
going to work in partnership with it. This will build trust between you
and your body. Then imagine yourself healed in the not too distant
future. If you will take these seven steps, you will release anger out of your body, and you will heal yourself.