Monday, March 01, 2010

Loving Anger

Anger is not your enemy. She* is your friend. She tells you what you don’t want, reminds you to follow your path, to be true to yourself.

If you fail to listen, she’ll keep trying to reach you, like any good friend would. She is so powerful that the universe will re-arrange itself to help you listen. When you don’t hear, she blossoms into rage, bearing her fruit into your life.

So welcome anger; welcome rage. She tells you that you have healthy boundaries requesting respect, that you love yourself. My naturopath says that anger only lasts for three seconds –her message is short—in your energy field, so there’s no need to attach to her. Unless you choose to do so (but really, there’s no need to attach to anything). No need to spread her message, either, because it is meant for you and only you.

*She: because women aren’t supposed to feel angry.

3 comments:

Danielle Boonstra said...

Thank you for this. I SO needed to be reminded of this today.

Shannon O said...

Every time that I have "tucked away" my anger, I have paid for it later.

Either I don't express it over and over and am eventually left with an insurmountable resentment that I have the inability to ever let go of, or I try to brush off something in haste and end up ignoring a warning sign that I should have learned from.

Thanks for sharing this,

- Shannon O | Confessions of a Loving Wife

i love you said...

I'm loving this post over here, about dealing with all emotional states, whether they belong to you or someone else:

http://binduwiles.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/what-i-learned-at-couples-counseling/

All of my latest writing has been telling me to do this : )

<3 S