What provokes you to anger? Do you enjoy it, do you if someone were to describe your temperament, would they say you are an angry person.
There have been vast periods in my life that I have definitely been ruled by anger. Sometimes I have defined it as righteous anger as if that somehow makes it less destructive. Other times I have been well aware of the inner turmoil and outward stress it has caused me and those around me.
A few years ago, I can't even remember how I heard the teaching that the real root of our anger is the fact we feel one or other of our needs are not being met. Until today that has been something that I have not really acknowledged -though my means of dealing with my own anger have been improving
-I ought to pause here to clear something up -I am not a rage-a-holic. If you met me under most circumstances you would not recognise that I have at times let anger drive me. I do believe that in some ways anger can be a useful energy for social change, but I think it is to our detriment if we do not recognise that selfish nature of anger. Right now, following my daily meditation I am the picture of calm and serenity!
I really felt it was important to recognise aloud (so to speak) the root of anger. A reaction to one of our needs either not being met or being impinged upon. I really want to work through this in my own life -to master my negative emotions and learn to see the root not the symptoms of my own anger. Already I feel I have learnt an important truth that I really want to share with those around me.
If we as humans learn to express our anger properly, how much better will the world become. If instead of raging at the slow moving checkout queue, I learn to take a deep breath and say -people are not deliberately trying to encroach on my time, let me see if I can bring some relief tho the world around me with my demeanor; maybe just maybe I can start changing the world on a daily basis.
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