When You’re Feeling Angry, Feel Angry

Society has done a good job at conditioning people to think that we shouldn’t be feeling angry when we are. Anger is a very powerful emotion and it is essential that we express it if it develops within. To say that we should always be happy and positive and feel as if something is wrong with us when we get angry is delusional in my opinion. We have all these emotions for a reason. We get to experience contrast and each emotion tells us something about ourselves. Anger is a good emotion to help one realize an aspect of them that they don’t accept. What one eventually discovers through Vipassana meditation is that everyone you attract into your life represents some part of you. A person who makes you angry is giving you insight into what you perceive as weak within.

Anger is Very Useful

If someone offends you because they called you introverted, then the reason why you got angry is because you don’t accept being introverted. You see it as a flaw and constantly try to rid yourself of it and cause more harm than good. This is why it is so important to recognize anger and express it. Do not get caught in society’s ideas that you shouldn’t feel this way. From the perspective of your True Self, anger is neither better nor worse than happiness and once you start meditating on anger, you start to accept yourself more and more. Anger starts to become less common because you start breaking your psychological prisons and don’t view yourself as broken.

The Complexity and Confusion About Emotions

Emotions can be confusing to the intellectual mind. Society tries to reject them and replace them with left-brain thinking such as logic and reasoning. I am sure there have been instances where someone noticed your depression and said something like, “Oh come on! Snap out of it! You know there are other people in other countries starving right now?!” These statements are of no help to you because it makes you feel ashamed of yourself and now think you are some ungrateful, selfish person; however, from the perspective of the Self, nobody’s life circumstances are neither better nor worse than yours. It’s all a perspective of the mind which causes you to ask yourself: “How dare I feel this way? I should feel happy,” and therefore you distance yourself from your emotions.

Please understand that all souls living on this planet are in their life circumstances for a reason. We are all part of one collective and immortal consciousness and we can’t let other people’s circumstances dictate how we should feel.