Anger is Important!

 Everybody has a lot of emotion that we suppress within ourselves. We are actually taught from a very early age to suppress our emotions in the interest of social acceptance. In other words, we suppress our emotions because we have been taught that in certain situations emotional expression of certain kinds is unacceptable. Boys are taught to repress more emotion than girls; at least girls have freer expression with the gentler emotions but girls are taught to repress anger even more than boys sometimes. 

    Anger begins with feelings of powerlessness. Because our egos believe that they are the most important part of us or sometimes all we are, they ignore the "being" or non physical part thereby separating themselves from their creative source. This is also the cause of our pain as well as the deep yearning within us, which is to make contact with that source again.

       Hopelessness comes about as the ego slowly wakes up and realizes that it seemingly doesn't have very much power over the creation of its reality. In fact, to the ego that is spiritually uneducated, reality isn't something that is created at all. At this point reality seems to be something that  causes the ego to experience feelings of no control over what it perceives. With this illusion comes frustration and anger.

     The most important thing to remember is one of Jesus’ main teachings which most people usually ignore and that is "know thyself". What this really means is no matter what is going through your mind as thoughts, the emotions you are feeling or anything else within you, become aware of it. Try your hardest to feel these things without judging them. Try not to think such and such a thought or emotion is bad because this may result in suppression. When we suppress these things it causes energy blockages within ourselves because in a certain way we are not taking responsibility for what we are in fact creating and this is counter to the evolution we are involved in right now, as human beings. Remember, not judging your thoughts as good or bad won't result in immorality. Judging you thoughts will result in suppression which will result in violence or abuse of various kinds if it goes on long enough. Fear of anger is a recipe for future problems like a kettle with no safety valve. 

    It is important to remember that what we are experiencing now is essential to waking up from the dream of form. To wake up we must realize we are creating our reality; which is everything we experience, like in a dream. Once we realize this it becomes evident that, in fact, our experiences are the same as dreaming. So, when I say we are waking up from the dream of form all it really means is that we are discovering that the dream isn't the main part of our reality. We begin to realize that we are the source of our reality which becomes experience (the dream). Of course, we create our reality in cooperation with other beings in the universe as well as God but the separateness from other beings is illusion based on where we are psychically as we perceive reality.

      Ultimately, we must go through our minds to see what is in there. By doing this we will train our egos to be powerful yet secure in themselves instead of dreadfully insecure. The powerful secure ego that knows its place within the grand scheme of the whole human being will be perfectly suited to cooperating with other egos in forming our reality in an intentional fashion. The ego will retake its rightful place as a focusing tool as it allows the rest of the whole self to create. The newly evolved human ego won't be interested in what it can acquire for itself, rather it will look to it's role as it cooperates in an intimate fashion in the creation of reality by the whole human being.

    Sometimes anger can be used in beneficial ways. It can lead you to change situations in your life as you become angry enough to initiate the change. For example if you are in a work place and you're not getting along with people or you hate the work, anger will lead you to new experiences if you get mad enough to move. Or you can totally accept your place there as well. In animals anger is used as a warning system to actually prevent violence  A dog warns off another dog if he comes to close to it's food; The intruding dog has been given a chance to back off. A bear huffs and puffs as a warning to other animals to stay away unless he can be used as prey and then there may be no warning. Again, it is the suppression of anger that becomes a problem. Practice presence, which is not thinking at certain times, and what is inside you will begin to emerge from the unknown reaches of your psyche.

                                                                                  John P. Hiscock