Thoughts On Anger

Love Lessons

On a five hour flight from Los Angeles to Washington DC, I considered the rise in anger I’m witnessing. As a veterinarian I’m seeing illness in people and animals associated with emotional stressors. That troubles me. Considering that every psychiatric medication is a mitochondrial toxin and that chronic disease begins with damage to the mitochondria (tiny parts of the cell that make energy and regulate cellular functions), it doesn’t make me happy to see people turning to these drugs to address life circumstances.

If we can understand our pathological anger, perhaps we can take other steps to improve our emotional and mental health.

I’m not saying drugs are bad, or they shouldn’t be used. I’m just asking if there is a way to look at this which gives us other choices.

Perhaps we are so angry because we are free.

Think about it. Or better yet, look at it. Because we are free, because we are affluent as a nation, we have time to look, time to contemplate, time AND resources to do things better. If we love, we look. If we look we discover things, stuff of all kinds. That stuff gives us choices between old things and ideas or new ideas. If we have all that, if we then choose to look at cat videos or watch the news and complain without actually addressing the things we see; well maybe, we become angry with ourselves.

Maybe, in some cases, we can’t face that so we redirect our attention onto others. If we do that, then we have chained ourselves to the status quo. In essence we saw it, we had a choice to change it or leave it, but we agreed with it, we said we were unable, incapable to make the needed change. From that point, then we are bound (obligated) to follow our own decision, our own created thing. At that point, all we feel we can do is complain about “others” and the “declining condition of the world.” We begin the downward slide to sheepdom, to a world disconnected, disappointing and declining. We live in a falsely stimulating, broken place laughing at pictures of cats and critiquing others, while people kill each other all in the name of God.

Yes, I think something is wrong there. Yes, I think we can change that.

We can change that and a host of other things.

We can. I can. You can. Not by politics or law, but by simply deciding to do it.

If we dislike our world, let’s change it. But, how to begin?

Love is the key. Love opens the doors, lets us connect, helps us see sufficiently to respect others enough that we hear their ideas. Then, love gives us choices and energies to choose and move. Once we move we can see if we are accomplishing our goals. We can use evidence based models to improve everything.

We can.

Love does that.

Love, love more. Then look and be aware of your thoughts and choices.

Simply choose to smile.

Make it an experiment.

Notice who smiles back. Notice how you feel. Choose to smile or not. Then see how your morning goes. Evaluate your choice.

Most people end up deciding to smile more.

Once we see some love, once we share it, then we begin to release powerful energy into our communities. Read, “Originals,” the best selling book by Adam Grant.

I’ll be your cheerleader, but you must decide. You must start. That’s enough words for now. Just go try it and see.

Welcome to the world. Tomorrow really is just a summation of IF’s and THEN’s. Let’s plant some seeds and help them grow.

The world is our garden. What will we plant today?