ANGER
       by Wolfgang Arndt

What happened at the world trade center is hitting at one of the core issues that I have been working with for a while. 

Lets talk about anger. In my world anger is a certain type of energy, just like love. This energy can be send through space and time and keeps on going till it is neutralized by forgiveness and love. Being angry floods our body with toxins and shuts down our immune system.  

Being angry burdens our liver, which is one of our major detoxification organs. Interestingly enough, a bad liver or an imbalanced liver meridian will influence us to be more angry or grouchy, lashing out on impulse. 

Anger generally generates more anger unless it is met with forgiveness and love. Anger has pretty much the opposite effect of love. Love nurtures and is a cure. Anger creates disharmony and ultimately destroys its target. 

Anger comes to us through our family traditions. It can start right in the womb of the mother. The unborn is merged emotionally with its mother. If the mother is angry a lot, the child most likely will carry the same anger.  

If the parents yell at or beat their children chances are that the kids will either grow angry and very resentful or become broken, thinking it is all their fault, which is a form of anger directed at the self.

Unfortunately in our parental traditions love is seen as a reward for good behavior. This is a very sad misconception. Love is the healer. Love is our inborn right, not a reward to be traded for pleasant behavior. Yet love and anger are traditionally used as the carrot and stick of behavior modification. 

Anger and violence are closely connected. People store more and more anger in their liver till it comes to a breaking point where the energy is being discharged in a violent act. Angry people fight more. Angry fathers that abuse their children create children that will be angry and tend to beat their children in turn. These traditions of tough love have been going on for many generations. They are an integral part of an imbalanced patriachical society. 

Anger and resentment can built over long periods of time. Bickering and overloading parents for example can create a rebellious child over time. Physical abuse only speeds up the process. Do you think that to bully a child into your idea of desired behavior will yield good results in the long run?  

We males have a fascination with fighting. It excites us talking about it. But I cannot forget when a friend, who witnessed a lot of street fights, told me that all the big street fighters that hurt a lot of people where all living in miserable conditions. He said hurting peoples bodies is very bad karma. 

Actually it is bad karma in several ways. Lets assume person A and B have a confrontation in a dark back alley.  A breaks Bs knee to win the fight. A thinks he won the fight and the story is over. Probably not ... Every time Bs knee hurts he will most likely send thoughts of anger to A. Lets say B lives for 40 more years and his knee deteriorates. B will probably project his anger and frustration unto A for the rest of his live, every time he thinks about the fight. 

This will have strong accumulative effect on person A. Thought forms travel to the person they are directed at and will have an effect on that person, depending on the clarity and intensity of the thought form. Curses and blessings work on the same principle. 

So please think about it.  When you get angry you hurt yourself by not feeling good, by creating toxins in your body and you hurt the one that you are angry at. Try to raise your vibration, which helps you get out of your reptile brain, and maybe pray to the angels to help you find a higher perspective to your problem.