Video Post by: Andreas Moritz
This is a great question and from Melinda, and she is asking, “How do we transform anger into useful energy?”
In truth, anger is useful energy. It is basically when we hold on to something for a long time that we haven’t expressed; we need anger in order to express it. So it’s pent up energy.
So things that we have been harboring inside of us, that we felt afraid of expressing, sharing with others, speaking up for ourselves, standing up for ourselves… which leads to frustration, and frustration, if it’s there for longer period of time, turns into anger. If the anger is not expressed, it will turn into depression.
So there is a sequence of energies, what we do with it. It’s like holding up a stream, if we hold it long enough by creating a dam and we don’t let the water flow, at least to some extent, then it will overflow and it might break the dam, and this is a sort of a more catastrophic expression which we call anger.
So, letting… having an outlet for energies, everything in life has to flow in order to be gentle and purposeful, otherwise the pent up and/or held up energy will break things and anger is sort of the more dramatic and destructive energy that will then restore the flow.
So anger is not something bad, therefore. If it happens, if it comes out, it is not for us to judge a person who is angry. If a person is angry, we should be happy that is able express his pent up energies, his emotions, that otherwise could cause severe problems to him and lead to depression. So it’s better for him to express himself and it’s for us to have the compassion to understand his pain, where he is coming from, and perhaps help him in the process of unwinding and release-ment.
The best way to deal with anger is before it happens, of course, to accept ourselves, our weaknesses, our mistakes, the things we think we have done wrong to others or to ourselves, and start instead of trying to change ourselves, to rather accept ourselves for who we are.
Everything about us is beautiful, the weaknesses, the strengths, the power, the fears, and the love that we have, and the negativity that we have. Everything is worth accepting. Not trying to change ourselves, to fix ourselves, but to accept ourselves, the way we are, and this allows ourselves to show to the rest of the world who we are.
We can show our weaknesses to the world around us, we give others the opportunity to be more lenient towards us, to see that we have a heart, that we may struggle and therefore they can, they have, you give them the permission, to develop compassion towards us and this opens their own heart. So we give them the opportunity to become happier as well, to expand their heart, to feel more free, and to see perhaps a part of themselves that they haven’t embraced as well. So it’s never a negative.
I would just suggest to embrace your fears, to look at your fears, allow them to flow and not just stagnate them, but to flow, to expand, become bigger even, imagine your fears become bigger and bigger and bigger, as big as possible, so that you stay with them rather than to reject them. Once we reject our fears, they turn into frustrations, the frustrations turn into anger and the anger turns into depression or sadness. That is very… it’s more difficult to get out of that.
So again, anger has its positives and we should see it for what it is. It’s a… we have put a lid on our emotions, we are not allowed to express them and it’s time to open up, let them flow as they may, in any direction they may go.
We don’t have to be perfect. We are here to live our lives in a way that we can perfectly well with our imperfections, and we don’t have to be perfect about anything. We can be flawed, mistaken, weak, and just by accepting those we automatically become strong, and we overcome these issues naturally without causing damage to ourselves or to our natural environment, to other
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