Stop running away from your anger
Don’t run from your anger and don’t try to bury it. Now is the time to embrace it.
by: E.B. Johnson
When we are confronted with our anger, it can be an unpleasant and uncomfortable experience. We’ve been taught to fear our anger, and to avoid it at all costs. It figures into our views on gender and even our views on self. It has the power to stir and transform entire nations, yet we fear it more than we seek to understand it.
Our anger can be a transformative force for good when we stop running from it and start embracing it. Anger comes from a primitive, purposeful place, and it’s our job to see it for what it is and redirect its power in our lives. When we allow ourselves to stop running from the anger and the pain that’s stirring within us, we can often find the energy and the inspiration to change ourselves (and the world around us) for the better.
Our anger is just another emotion.
We are living in the midst of a world in flux. Everything we have ever known is changing, and it’s changing at a pace that’s faster than we’ve ever experienced it. Now is the time to re-invent yourself and embrace the life you were always meant to lead. That means accepting who we are, though, and accepting our emotions too…
