Anger 1.1
What is your anger hiding?
Anger may vary all the way from rage to mild resentment. It includes revenge, outrage, indignation, fury, jealousy,Β vindictiveness, spite, hatred, contempt, wrath, argumentativeness, hostility, sarcasm, impatience , frustration , negativity, aggression, violence, revulsion, meanness, rebellion, explosive behaviour, agitation, abusiveness, abrasiveness, smouldering, sullenness, pouting, and stubbornness (from the book Letting go the pathway to surrender for David R. Hawkins).
Anger is a very strong emotion, and because it is strong it replaces many other subtle negative emotions like apathy, indifference or shame and thatβs why we like it. It is strong, it gives us power it makes us move and do something about something..
In my personal life I found that anger always hides some other emotion and I discovered that as children in face of traumatic events we use it as a coping mechanism in facing many other difficult emotions that a child can not handle.
Anger can perfectly replace feelings of humiliation or shame, feelings of worthlessness, feelings of pain, feelings of being defective or feelings of abandonment.
Β Anger was a protector for the child in these cases butβ¦. when the child is an adult, anger hides all those (very painful emotions) and hiding them is not actually a solution.
Because that where they are. Hidden.
If a person is in a low depressed state maybe anger can be a positive emotion to awaken the spark and the desire for living, but be very careful not to let it be the only energy that makes you feel alive because there are wonderful emotions that you would be missing if you are only living by the anger you are keeping inside of you as the you that you love.Β
And the difficult challenge I ask from you today is: ask your self what is your anger hiding, journal about it, and get rid of the emotion that it is keeping. Open the door and let the light enter and allow those hidden emotions to be felt. Now you can feel them. You are not a child anymore.
Much Love..
Mona
I have been hiding a lot of childhood trauma behind my anger to be able to not experience the same things again but figuring out what should we do with anger to heal what anger was resulting from it took me a lot to start over and Iβm grateful for all the support of Mona personally β₯οΈ