an article of I AM University by Dr Joshua David Stone & Gloria Excelsias
Seven steps on releasing AngerSai Baba says, “Anger is the worst exhibition of the ego.” To release anger from our lives, it is just a matter of understanding what attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs create anger. The definition of anger is “a loss of control and an attempt to regain it”! If you always remain in your 100% personal power then you never have to lose control. Many people on Earth use anger as a replacement for true personal power and this is not good. Anger is not personal power and self-mastery, it is a demonstration of being out of control. It is a false sense of power that stems from the negative ego. To truly become a Spiritual master you must replace anger with true personal power! If you always own your personal power then you will never have to be angry! If you ever do start to get angry, channel that energy immediately into a creative usage of personal power! Just redirect it with the power of your mind, so it becomes true personal power and Spiritual warrior energy instead of anger.
Mahatma Gandhi said, “I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger; and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so out anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.” This is called “positive anger.” The Buddha said, “Anger is like a chariot careering wildly. He who curbs his anger is the true charioteer. Others merely hold the reins!”
So firstly, own your Personal Power 100%.
Secondly, keep up your Golden Bubble of Protection 100% at all times! Without this protection, other people’s attacks, criticism and negative energy can lodge in your subconscious mind and solar plexus and cause a defense and anger reaction. The ideal is to respond in life and not react.
Thirdly, let go of attachments. As Lord Buddha in His Four Noble Truths said, “All suffering comes from attachments”. Whenever you are angry, you are attached, and this is a fact. The Spiritual ideal is to change all attachment attitudes to preferences. See On Having Preferences Rather Than Attachments.
Fourthly, look at everything that happens in life as a Spiritual test and lesson, not as some kind of bummer and problem. Every time you get angry you are forgetting to look at life as a Spiritual test and lesson! Everything that happens in life is happening for a reason! Everything that happens is GOD and/or life teaching you something! The real purpose of Earth life is nothing more than to see if you can respond to everything that happens in life in a centered, unconditionally loving, and forgiving manner. In every situation of life you either respond from your negative ego/fear-based/separative mind or the Spiritual/Christ/Buddha Mind. You either realize GOD in that moment or lose GOD in terms of your realization by how you respond!
Fifthly, always remember that you cause your own reality, your feelings and emotions by how you think. No one can make you feel angry but yourself! They may have attacked you or criticized you unfairly, but that did not cause you to feel anything! That is what is called the “catalyst”!
Sixthly, always seek to maintain love within self and from GOD first before seeking it from others. In other words, unconditionally love yourself and your inner child. Also fully allow yourself to receive GOD’s and the Masters’ love for you. This way, before you enter the world you are totally complete and whole within yourself. This way you go into life feeling filled with love! If you don’t do this you are not feeling loved, and hence will seek love from others instead of finding it first within your relationship to self and GOD. Perfect love casts out fear!
Seventhly, always remember that anger is a form of attack. Anytime a person attacks, they are feeling fear! There are only two emotions: love and fear. An attack is a call for love! Anger is the negative ego thought system’s misguided and faulty thinking way of trying to get love! Anger will not get you what you want. It will create the opposite. The key is to transcend both fear an anger, which are the two sides of the negative ego philosophy and thought system, and to instead think with your Spiritual/Christ/Buddha Mind, which only thinks from the heart and unconditional love.
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