Anger - one letter away from D-anger

A discussion on anger came up in my conversation with someone yesterday. There was a time I too felt that anger in some situations was justified. But as I understood what's behind this emotion I have to disagree with all defenders of anger - NO MATTER WHAT THE SITUATION. Anger is NOTHING more than a response to fear. You can take that statement to the bank. That's all anger is! Fear is a primal emotion, that flares up whenever we sense ourselves in danger of any sort. If the danger is bigger than what we believe we can handle then we are faced by the 'fight or 'flight' choices for our survival. Stay and Fight, or escape through Flight are unconscious responses of human beings to any situation which feels threatening -- and given the fragility of the human body, we feel 'in danger' very quickly and very easily, and we experience fear. When we do not have the physical, emotional, intellectual resources to stay and 'fight' we tend to take 'flight', even if not literally - but this part I will address later. For now let's focus on the fear.

Fear, then, evokes a sense of helplessness and this helplessness gives rise to anger. The more fears we have, or, the more deeply we fear, the more prone we are to being angry. The more we deal with our fears the less anger we hold within. It might be a revelation to also realize that the more fear and anger we hold within, the more we attract situations and events in our lives that nake us fearful, and/or angry. It's our old friend, the Law of Attraction - up to its old tricks of attracting more to us what we are feeling within. But, how powerful it is to know that it's all under our control, and it's up to us to clean out the emotions within that are not serving us.

Stare your fears in the eye, and they'll vanish -- this I promise you.

Kiki ;-)
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.