Anger is Human

Anger is Human

I realize that many people

will not even read past 

the title of this blog. 

The Human Experience 

may be best described by

Theodore Rubin

"Feeling angry is 

a Universal 

Human Phenomenon.

It is as basic 

as feeling

hungry, 

lonely, 

loving, 

or tired."

I believe the issue is 

more the 

 bottleneck and ultimate explosion 

of attempting to suppress 

angry feelings

or any other feeling. 

Feeling our thoughts is healthy. 

Anger is perhaps 

the most misunderstood

of human emotions.

Denial and suppression is pathological

observes Robert Firestone Ph. D

I Love what David Whyte 

English poet and philosopher 

has to say about anger. 

"

ANGER is the deepest form of compassion, 

for another, for the world, for the self, for a life, for the body, for a family and for all our ideals, 

all vulnerable and all, possibly about to be hurt. 

Stripped of physical imprisonment and violent reaction, 

anger is the purest form of care, 

the internal living flame of anger always illuminates what we belong to, 

what we wish to protect 

and what we are willing to hazard ourselves for. 

What we usually call anger is only what is left of its essence 

when we are overwhelmed by its accompanying vulnerability, 

when it reaches the lost surface of our mind 

or our body’s incapacity to hold it, 

or when it touches the limits of our understanding. 

What we name as anger 

is actually only the incoherent physical incapacity 

to sustain this deep form of care in our outer daily life; 

the unwillingness to be large enough 

and generous enough to hold what we love helplessly 

in our bodies or our mind 

with the clarity and breadth of our whole being."

Does it change your perception of Anger?