Clearly, anger is a normal and necessary
human emotion.
It allows us to set boundaries with
others - to mark our territory and speak out when those boundaries are
violated.
However, when this emotion, one of many
we humans have been gifted with, becomes a default position we get in trouble…
Being stuck in any one emotional state is
just that - stuck!
DANCE WITH IT! EXPERIENTIAL APPS
An opportunity to
experiment with some fun ideas…
Here's how one
person put it when someone suggested she tell the person she was angry with how
she felt:
"Yeah," she
said, "but if he apologizes to me, I can't be mad at him and he's a great
place to put all my anger…"
She was saying she needed someone to stay angry at - to
maintain this feeling - the charge that comes with anger.
Does this fit for
you?
Sometimes we seem to
believe that holding on to being angry is so much a part of who we are that
without it we are lost…
Here's an
interesting experiment:
Ask yourself what
would happen if you release the anger you carry with you?
Not swallow it, not
vent it, but work through it …
What might take its
place?
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