Anger Kills

Mind, body and spirit, anger kills.

In the mind anger kills - all that energy lost on judging others, worrying about being judged, and reacting to all that judgment kills. In the spirit, all that reaction to all that anger kills your ability to experience joy and happiness, to experience love, well-being, intimacy, and without those things, the bittnerness eats away at you until you fizzle away. In the body - anger eats away the good cells and replaces them with epidemic proportions of bad cells - any vestiges that might be left of goodness, well-being, joy, happiness, love - these are eaten away by all those bad cells.

Worse than all of that is that anger has the most incredibly painful repercussions in the energy around you. You lash out in anger and those waves touch and touch and keep touching, it becomes painful not just for you but everyone around you and never changes one thing, except increasing that level of pain.

Anger is just a reaction, usually a subconscious response to the fact that things aren't the way we expected them or wanted them to be and our inability to accept What Really Is. In other words, anger is a choice. So somthing is different than you expected - can you cultivate a different response? So things didn't go the way you wanted - can you respond in a different manner?

The answer is yes you can, but it is still a choice whether you will or not. And since anger is a cultivated product of today's 'modern' civilization it's all over the place. It takes practice to respond differently than what you've seen, grown up with, what is cultivated in a generation. But it is totally possible. Simple things help:
1) breathing very deeply before you respond to anything gives you a little space to bring more objective about a response
2) practicing kindness is tough but one of the most powerful methods of countering anger, and that includes being kind to yourself

Anger kills on every level and it acts like a parasitic disease on those around you, butit's a choice. choose well.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2009 Darshan F Jessop