Positive and Negative Anger

Positive and Negative Anger

Positive and Negative Anger

One of the things that gets us in trouble about anger is that we think it is not o'kay. We put this value judgment on it. We're not supposed to be angry. People don't like us when we are angry. They don't want us to express our anger around them. Nobody likes to be yelled at and specifically it is important for us to understand the difference between anger and violence because you say, all emotions are o'kay, anger has a time and a place but when we keep stuffing that anger and stuffing that anger and stuffing that anger what happens is at some point some little thing sets us off and it blows, it starts just popping out all over the place so anger is not o'kay when anger is violent. But anger is o'kay when it comes to standing up for ourselves, telling other people that we felt hurt, using that angry energy to do something like Mother's Against Drunk Driving, angry that the child was killed. And yet that energy in motion becomes the momentum to do something positive and constructive in the world but it started with an angry energy so anger has a time and a place. There is a healthy and productive way to express it and that's what we are going to do next...