Anger - avoid

Hi Folks !

Glad about the phenomenal response to the last post !

Let me give you the Ex-monk's website. He's very wise and wonderful !


And witty too !

http://www.lovingsilence.com/



So ! How's life been ?!


You know, it is exactly the way we wished it to be.

Which is irritating because we expect Life to know better !

Many times, its -' I DID fervently want this, but that was THEN, not NOW '!

Then there is anger and disappointment, a tendency to blame someone.

Lets see.

What exactly does Anger do?


Something happens and we dont like it at all.

The incidence has already happened and is done with, but the thoughts about it carry on.

We react immediately with words or action or a frown.

We continue with our work, but it is only physically, superficially.

In our mind, the scene will replay a thousand times in minuter details each time.

The hurt getting better and better.

Our language getting sharper and finer.

It will be a big, angry red splotch on a huge canvas and our Anger will gleefully open the inexhaustible supply of old familiar wounds, carefully nurtured, which will fill it up in no time.

We will deliberately keep the fire in our heart burning and hurting.

With each memory consciously or unconsciously brought up, the level of our enjoyment of our own anger goes up many notches.

The habit of enjoying anger and hurts now gets entrenched even more.

It gives a high, a satisfaction, a shot of adrenaline which also gives us an aura -maybe just in our own mind.

We may even welcome the headache, an attack of migraine as proof that we are angry enough to eatisfy our own standard !

Its so self-defeating !

And so unnecessary.

Nothing good will come out of this kind of reaction.

The mind does not this type of stimulus to work.It works best when it is in a fine balance, when it is at rest.

In equilibrium.

And this is not that state when it is angry.

To keep up, it releases enzymes which are poisonous to our health.

It blocks the free flow of our life-force through our own system.

Anger harms and only harms.

And it harms ourselves the most.

Not the person or the situation which caused it.

That's secondary.


To understand it, thinking about the 'culprit person' or culprit situation' as a small part of the whole big design helps.

They, or it, is but a small part, and you are just another part in a whole big drama.

Basically, it boils down to pruning one's Ego and doing it is actually quite liberating.
It is !


Watch your anger as if it is happening to someone else.

Slow deep breathing helps.

Feel the breath going deep down and bring out the bitterness with each out - breath, little by little.



Do you remember an earlier post about Energy and its theft ?


If you get angry, thats what YOU are doing. Stealing energy from others.


Understand that THIS is the root cause. That you are short on peace and quiet and life-force.

You know the remedy.


MEDITATE.

Tap into the pure , infinite source without stealing from other (equally polluted) sources!

Stop making your own and other people's life miserable !

I have come across a couple more types of energy -stealers.

Interesting.

I will check out the theory and tell you in my next post.

In the mean time, watch that anger.

So long for now, folks.