Are You Burying Your Anger? – Jack Canfield

Anger often means expectations or needs weren’t met. Or it exposes unhealed wounds about doubting our needs matter. By creating “the gap” between stimulus causing anger, and the response chosen – as response power originates inside, we reclaim our power to see the gift that anger brings to us. Learning to name feelings and then address stories fueling them is critical to build authentic relationship. Start by honoring the emotional raw data anger provides, without judgment.

Rather than making someone “wrong,” buried feelings signal ignored aspects within self. Self-inquiry leads to compassion and for wholeness’ restoration. Mindfully explore anger’s message of needs without reactively discharging on others. Removing related expectations helps, as does installing empowering beliefs around your needs’ significance through self-reparenting affirmations. Set healthy boundaries without resorting to non-consensual power-over control. Reactively blocking another’s unhealthy behavior often perpetuates pain. Instead, compassionately acknowledge yours or their wounds’ painful influence, while modeling self-led choice through non-attached loving presence.

Beloved, within you is everything you need to sleigh the serpent mind and the conditioned stories we’ve all suffered from living within the lies of separation.