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If we learn to harness the feeling, anger can become a powerful and transformative teacher.
Dear Friends,
Anger is one of the basic human emotions, as elemental as happiness, sadness, anxiety, or disgust. These emotions are tied to basic survival and were honed over the course of human history.
Anger is related to the “fight, flight, or freeze” response of the sympathetic nervous system; it prepares humans to fight. But fighting doesn't necessarily mean throwing punches. It might motivate communities to combat injustice by changing laws or enforcing new norms.
Of course, anger too easily or frequently mobilized can undermine relationships or damage physical health in the long term.
Prolonged release of the stress hormones that accompany anger can destroy neurons in areas of the brain associated with judgment and short-term memory and weaken the immune system.
For many of us, feeling our feelings is uncomfortable — especially when that emotion is anger. The tension may seem like too much. We don’t want to deal with the discomfort, or we may worry about what we might discover on the other side.
Fully experiencing our emotions means they don’t get buried and we receive the important information they’re trying to give us.
When we’re at work or with family, we often put on a happy face and push down feelings of anger—which can lead to us neglecting how we really feel. But when you deny your true emotions, you can create inner turmoil. Learn to give yourself space to embrace all your emotions, including the difficult ones like anger.
I invite you to join me for online group meditation Tuesday September 10th at 7pm or in-person group meditation September 12th at 7pm 185 Lincoln St. Suite #300 Hingham (Crow Point Pizza Plaza) for a guided meditation on “Overcoming feelings of Anger.”
Please contact me through the "Contact Eileen" link no later than the Monday before Group Meditation to request the Zoom Link.
May your anger teach you forgiveness and compassion and may we find our way home on this planet and cool the fires of conflicts, greed, anger, and isolation.
E
"I have had to learn to love my anger, and to treat it as I would treat anyone or anything that I consider precious and beautiful." Rod Owens
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