BeSimply…Purification {Sol. Silence. Sound}

Anger | Purpose and Remedy: From a psycho-spiritual lens, anger exists to teach you how to be patient—finding and retaining your ever-present calm. The upward motion and surprising jolt offer an opportunity to practice humility. It’s a repetitive dance that doesn’t always have the same footwork or consistent tempo. Anger’s outcome, however, remains the same: hurling you back into the wheel of suffering. From a sassy Buddha lens, anger opens the gates of H-E-double-hockey-sticks, leaving you and others in one of the lowest emotional common-denominator states of being. Everyone is held in the sludge, with more toxins than high-vibrational frequencies to navigate any moment with equanimity. All involved suddenly find themselves captive to a disorienting frequency, best met with a pause—until you regain your presence and neutrality.

Anger has the power to impact many parts of your system, both internally and externally. It moves your Qi (energy) in an upward motion, literally disrupting your entire system. This electric charge grabs your attention and can pull you into a destructive loop, internally and externally. The disruption may last only a moment, yet the ripples continue beyond the explosion. Alternatively, you can harness this energy and transmute it for the benefit of yourself and others. Some days, this will be easier than others.

Internally and Externally: All emotions can injure your energy (Qi), affecting your body, mind, heart, and soul. Professionally and personally, this is why I focus on a psycho-spiritual approach to help others rebalance their entire system and return to well-being. Collectively, in most treatments and practices, humanity has become skilled at compartmentalizing every system that co-contributes to your well-being, creating dissonance in analysis, objective contemplation, and finding a clear pathway to rebalance. This compartmentalization creates blind spots. When you ignore the energetics and your soul’s eternal pathway in a healing and transformation process, any return to balance in mind, body, heart, and soul—perceptual healing—will be temporary. In Western and “modern” Eastern practices, the focus on symptoms, diagnoses (labels), prognoses, “doing” (taking something, shifting lifestyle habits, bypassing), and/or even facing death ensures you’ll keep running around the proverbial racetrack, potentially creating additional imbalances in mind, body, heart, or soul. Simultaneously, you’ll evade authentic psycho-spiritual balancing and transformation. When I step back and look at all aspects of an individual’s system, I can begin to map the deeper roots of their current state of affairs that led them here. Then, if they’re willing, I can guide them to a state of balance. This brings me back to the word patience—it will be required. Most of society is programmed to use a Band-Aid approach for symptom/prognosis treatment and proactive well-being. In Spring, your liver, coupled with anger, invites you to step out of the control loop and into a daily practice of retaining harmony, flow, and balance. This unique guidance comes from your eternal being—your soul—and is guided by your divine heart.

I wanted to share this excerpt I recently read because it beautifully illustrates the emotional call-and-response you can predictably experience at any moment in your daily life:

Wang Bing, the great commentator of the Suwen of the Tang Dynasty, discussing the phrase ‘anger dominates thought’, specifies: ‘When there is anger there is no thought, in the impetus of rage one forgets one’s misfortunes, and this is the victory (of anger over thought).’39 Famous clinicians used this relationship in the course of various procedures in their treatments. This type of therapy was particularly developed by Zhang Zihe: Sadness can treat anger: one must move the patient with sad, painful and bitter words; euphoria can treat sadness: one must entertain the patient with jokes, wisecracks, and practical jokes; fear can treat euphoria: one must frighten the patient with threatening words about death or bad luck; anger can treat thought: one must provoke the patient with insolent words; thought can treat fear: one must divert the patient’s attention towards another subject, so that he forgets the cause of his fear. […]

It’s really this simple: you can start tracking how your emotions play a significant role in your state of being and how each emotion can either balance or disrupt your ever-present calm. When you retain your true nature, the pathway to balancing your entire being becomes much clearer, more certain, and effortless.

If inspired, I encourage you to observe when your electromagnetic system starts to heat up—when you feel anger, frustration, irritation, aversion, and so forth. Then, create a pause (even if you didn’t catch yourself before erupting, do so afterward). During this “time-out,” self-reflect and turn into the emotion(s), noting where you feel restriction in your mental, emotional, and physical body. Hold this gently—just be with it. Next, ask the deepest depths of your being, “What do you need?” Let this question rest gently—just be with it. Keep repeating this process each time the emotion rises. In every moment, you’ll be practicing patience with yourself and, eventually, with others.

The outcome. You’ll find a deeper understanding of how to balance all your systems. Plus, you’ll learn to listen more deeply. Your ability to hear will lead you into smooth, graceful action in all seasons of your life.