Harnessing the Energy of Anger

Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,

In class this week we are talking about “Harnessing the Energy of Anger.”

By expressing anger to another person, you harm yourself in two ways. First, you block channels of communication with the other person, which, for better or worse, are part of the flow-pattern that nourishes your life – even if that person represents and endless source of frustration for you. Secondly, you contract your understanding of the particular moment. The energy which you express as anger should be more appropriately used to expand this understanding.

If you refrain from expressing your anger, then it becomes possible for three things to happen. First of all, you have the opportunity to recognize the senselessness of anger, and the need to do something progressive. Next, you become aware of your responsibility for the difficulty, whatever it may be. This allows you to begin to turn it around inside for a while, after which you can articulate it not as frustration, but as a higher understanding. Finally, in doing this, you can change whatever it is that you have been doing to generate such situations. You can also, at the same time, free the other person from what maybe has been unconscious behavior, developed in reaction to you or to some misunderstanding between you.

Anger is really only a demonstration of some blockage in your own system, and not in anybody else’s.

-Swami Chetananda

The reflection from the quote is to notice the seeds of anger at the earliest point in their development - mentally and physiologically. From this awareness work to turn these seeds into love.

Blessings,

paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
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Camas, WA 8607
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Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003