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Anger is just another emotion, and I agree that learning the ability to detach emotion and thought, to be able to objectively witness yourself (a phenomenon with some importance I think), is indeed quite valuable, and a little scary.
The buddhist thing is more and more relevant as the material world manifests in ways they never could have imagined. When religion is brought in, as you said, i find that disheartening. Buddhism, in my humble opinion, stands proud as a leading world religion than is not based on creation or interpretation of a creator.
My trick is to acknowledge the anger, objectify it and then stop resisting it. I find anger causes symptoms that include being literally unhappy about having to be angry, and a certain berating pattern. I just try to let the anger exist, to flow through me with as little resistance on my part as possible, if that makes any sense.
It may help to visualize it neurologically or as a biochemical-electoral interaction. That helps some people objectify and disown negative emotions.
(September 4, 2010 at 12:56 pm)Pippy Wrote: My trick is to acknowledge the anger, objectify it and then stop resisting it. I find anger causes symptoms that include being literally unhappy about having to be angry, and a certain berating pattern. I just try to let the anger exist, to flow through me with as little resistance on my part as possible, if that makes any sense.
Yeah, I can imagine that and I believe I have experience of that too, yes. It can really be a catch-22 I think.
Quote:All part of the ride.
I'm reminded of Bill Hicks:
"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly coloured, and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question - is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.' And we...kill those people. Ha ha ha. 'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace." - Bill Hicks
I don't know what a "Bill Hicks" is, but that's one of the wisest things I've ever heard a human being utter.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
September 14, 2010 at 9:16 am (This post was last modified: September 15, 2010 at 1:54 am by ib.me.ub.)
I have a theory about this little affect. I would like to explain.
Although it is not Scientifically proven, I believe telephathy has something to do with this. It is far from an exact science, but it is testable!
About the anger, if people are having bad thoughts /or just thoughts about you, you will pick up on these thoughts, and you will feel angry / sad / good etc, depending on how you are translating the feelings / thoughts. Even if they are the other side of the world (transportation of the feeling / thought is another topic) you maybe affected by their thoughts / feelings if they are directed at you, purposly or not.
I personally think half of the issue maybe understanding how things work. Obviously, other things will play a part. ie, diet, excercise, rest, emotional state. But I think what I have briefly outlined above does have an effect!
Also, there are many thoughts / feelings out there. Sometimes it is hard to define an exact person, but each person does have their own sound / vibration.
Some of you will think I am a bit strange, that is fine.....fire away!
September 14, 2010 at 10:13 am (This post was last modified: September 14, 2010 at 10:14 am by KichigaiNeko.)
Totally random thought process....
Anger is a tool, a wonderful one at that ....it spurs the emotions to the point where one can go and spear that mammoth, take the reins of that wild horse and get behind the handle bars of that motorcycle and...
Succeed.
Like adrenalin...anger can be a force for the benefit of the individual...
But to answer your original statement EvF ....
If I am angry @ anything I Do take the time to step back and 'sit' with the feeling to get my bearings and THEN I will answer. (After much scrubbing and cleaning of the house)
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
