#CreativeHealing Tips: Anger

 What’s your Anger telling you?

You are angry, are you? Angry: about the state of the world, your environment, your current situation, your relationship (or lack thereof), or just about everything, or nothing? You are enraged to the point of wanting to punch someone or hurt yourself. Whether you externalize or internalize the rage, the feeling is rooted in you and it is not functioning in disconnection with your mind.  They are both entwined. Mario Martinez tells us that our feeling and thinking are connected and if we don’t pay attention to their unhealthy state, they begin to manifest as diseases or behavioural disorders.

Unfortunately, most of us aren’t programmed to embrace our anger. However, reprogramming is essential to retune this default setting. Poet Hela Tekali advises that you “allow yourself to wisely ride the storm that rages through you.” By riding the tides of your anger, you are taking the first crucial step, to give it love.

So what can you do today? Embrace your anger. Breathe. Walk. Dance. Observe. Be with the feeling. Watch the thinking. Listen to what your anger is telling you and thank it for the insight.

I leave you with this profound wisdom by Jeff Foster call THE BEAUTY IN YOUR ANGER:

"When you're feeling angry, just feel angry. Don't try to 'not feel angry'; you'll only split yourself in two, and end up attacking, or repressing, in your quest for relief. Don't think about feeling angry, then. Just feel angry. Be present with the raw, fiery, burning sensations in the belly, chest, throat, head. Invite loving attention deep into the volcanic heart of anger. Let the sensations tingle, pulsate, vibrate, flutter. Breathe into them, soften around them. Dignify their existence. Drop the word 'anger' now; simply connect with what's alive. Be the room for the fiery sensations, their loving embrace. Know that these sensations aren't a mistake; you're not doing anything wrong. Anger is not 'bad' or 'negative' or 'unspiritual', or a sign of your weakness. You are alive. And you have a right to ALL your feelings. You need not act on them, and please don't push them down. But simply stand with anger; be its loving parent, not its victim. Breathe into it, let it move. It will not stay long. It comes to cleanse, not to destroy. It comes to remind you of your tremendous power. So be kind to your anger; It is only trying to protect you from harm." 

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Toyin Ajao (Ph.D)

Gypsy Goddess

Leader of the Spiritual Anarchists @ Gypsy Goddess Rebellion

Scholar, writer, healer, teacher, researcher, adventurer, rebel.