Are You P*ssed Off? Great!

 

When we think of negative “energy” within ourselves, what comes to mind? Depression, anxiety, fear? Those are all indeed dream-killers. Learning to control those emotions (and the thoughts that they provoke) is probably the most basic step as we begin to truly take control of our own lives. You simply cannot focus on solutions while you’re grieving over your circumstances.  

Of course, negative emotions serve a purpose. Just as your body feels pain when something’s not right, your painful emotions are telling you something’s not right. And so you either wallow in it, or you take action.. The pain is meant to get you up off your butt and doing something about it.

Is it really negative?

We think we know all about negativity – after all, most of us experience it on a regular basis. But there’s one emotion that we call negative that has other uses besides telling us that something’s wrong: anger.

Anger can be very useful… if it’s controlled and directed toward a positive outcome. There are two kinds of anger: the out-of-control, raging, throwing things around kind of anger, and righteous anger. Think Jesus in the temple with the money-changers – he kicked their asses for a very good reason. He didn’t ask, “pretty please, could you guys go outside and do that?” He ordered them out, in no uncertain terms.

If we’ve mastered control over the disappointment and fear, and don’t worry when things appear to not be going well, we’ve achieved neutrality and that is excellent. Even if we can’t manage eternal bliss for the time being, neutrality of emotion allows whatever is coming to us to be unhindered by our own energy. We’re not pushing things away any more.

But with neutrality comes a certain stasis. OK, we’re well-balanced now – we can view life with a kind of peace. But we didn’t come here to be beige. With the entire creative force of the Universe at our fingertips, we want to be on fire and flaming red-orange… whatever that means for each one of us.

(As an aside, many of us seem to feel that any emotion is better than no emotion – and since we can’t readily conjure up joy, we cling to the negative just to feel human. Not a good plan.)

A controlled burn

Controlled anger is often a positive. If you lose it and spank your kid or break things, you’re relinquishing control to your emotions. But if you use anger as a powerful and focused tool, it can be a very, very good thing.

Let’s say you have a goal in mind, or a change in direction you want to make. You’re able to stay neutral 99% of the time, accept what is, and “surrender” to whatever comes along. But we know that although thoughts are what gives us a direction, it’s emotion that drives our will out beyond ourselves – its the fuel for the vehicle you’re in. If you’re not passionate about it, it’ll be that much harder to attract what you want.

So: anger is an emotion, a very powerful one at that.  Used in the right way, it can drive your dreams to wherever you want them to go.

Anger toward yourself or others is useless. Anger in the sense that you’re pissed that something “out there” isn’t treating you better – no good.  That’s bitterness.

But here’s the good anger when things aren’t working out: “I am a Divine Being, goddammit! I deserve what I want! I am a powerful creator, and if the universe doesn’t understand that, I’m setting it straight right now. I will get what I want out of life, and nothing is going to stop me! I’m tired of this shi*t!”

Now, remember up top there I said that painful emotions are useful as indicators and not much more? Well, sometimes anger isn’t painful at all. That’s when you know it’s a useful anger – it’s a powerful burst of energy that shows your reality who’s boss. You are meant to bend and shape your reality – to impose your will on it. Like Jesus, you’re not asking the universe to pretty please bring you what you want – you’re telling it what damn well better happen.

The kind of anger where you feel badly afterward (like spanking your kid or directing it at another  person), is the wrong kind. The anger where you feel powerful afterward, almost intoxicated with your own emotion, is the good kind. It’s quite a rush. It pushes your will out into your reality like those “rockets of desire” that Esther Hicks talks about. You can literally rock the universe, set it back on its heels, make it finally pay attention.

“Un-conscious” people will have a hard time grasping all of this. But then again, they’re not reading this – you are.

Constant anger is of course not to be entertained. But that occasional burst of pure primal energy can be one of the best tools in your kit. Use it wisely.