Thoughts on Anger (from my Email Box)
Jun. 8th, 2005 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carocrowHave the courage to act instead of react.
~Earlene Larson Jenks
The Dark Side: A Powerful Teacher
by Lauren Thibodeau, Ph.D.
Many of us who choose to lead spiritually focused lives struggle a bit with the power of what I call 'the dark side' -- that inner being (or that other b-word) who feels anger, and shows it. Realizing that sometimes anger is necessary for transformation is a huge step in our individual and collective spiritual development. We all have to integrate our dark power as well as our light power, our yin and our yang, our ebb and our flow. And we also must remember that not all anger is spiritually focused. What matters is intention.
When I think about who has used the power of anger and intention in a profoundly spiritual direction, my mind goes to Rosa Parks, who refused to vacate her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 and launched the modern civil rights movement in the United States.
"Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it. I kept thinking about my mother and my grandparents, and how strong they were. I knew there was a possibility of being mistreated, but an opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others," she wrote in Quiet Strength.
What a profoundly inspiring way to use the power of anger to transform the world.
I encourage you all to consider how you could use your anger as a force for good. Anger is a natural emotion, as much a part of this world as love. And using the power of anger with love behind it is an unstoppable force for transformation.
Don't fear your anger: direct it. Toward change. For good.
~Earlene Larson Jenks
The Dark Side: A Powerful Teacher
by Lauren Thibodeau, Ph.D.
Many of us who choose to lead spiritually focused lives struggle a bit with the power of what I call 'the dark side' -- that inner being (or that other b-word) who feels anger, and shows it. Realizing that sometimes anger is necessary for transformation is a huge step in our individual and collective spiritual development. We all have to integrate our dark power as well as our light power, our yin and our yang, our ebb and our flow. And we also must remember that not all anger is spiritually focused. What matters is intention.
When I think about who has used the power of anger and intention in a profoundly spiritual direction, my mind goes to Rosa Parks, who refused to vacate her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 and launched the modern civil rights movement in the United States.
"Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it. I kept thinking about my mother and my grandparents, and how strong they were. I knew there was a possibility of being mistreated, but an opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others," she wrote in Quiet Strength.
What a profoundly inspiring way to use the power of anger to transform the world.
I encourage you all to consider how you could use your anger as a force for good. Anger is a natural emotion, as much a part of this world as love. And using the power of anger with love behind it is an unstoppable force for transformation.
Don't fear your anger: direct it. Toward change. For good.
