Hi again everyone.

 

Thanks to anyone and everyone who read my last blog, far far more than I was ever expecting. Just a couple of comments would make this boy smile even more, as long as they're nice!

 

My thoughts today are leaning towards anger. Don't worry this isn't going to be the rantings of a crazy cross man. I get angry, more than I should for a hippie in training, and I'm sure that you get angry too. What I've come to understand that anger isn't really a bad emotion. The fact that we are able to express ourselves emotionally a fantastic gift and anger is a part of that. The dangers of anger are holding onto it, this is a very destructive thing to do. If we get angry, then spend the next 24 hours stressing over it, 'why did they do that', 'how could that situation happen' or 'I hate them', then we lose, no question.

 

What we need to be able to do is when we are angry accept it. Accept that, whatever the situation is, we have become angry. That we are in the act of being an angry little goblin. This in itself will help to release the pressure valve of our emotions. If you stop letting the anger be in control of you in this way then it will dissipate very quickly leaving you to deal with whatever the situation is in a much more rational frame of mind. I'm sure you're reading this thinking it can't possibly be that easy but I promise you it is, it just takes practise and discipline of your mind to realise you're in that state and then to accept it without judgment. This is very important, you have to accept it without judgment, without getting cross at yourself for getting cross. Then anger will not fester, will not turn to bitterness over time and will not control your happiness.

 

If we can all try to become in control of our anger like this then we can life a much happier and peaceful life, sounds daft I know but it makes some sense. I don't want to miss out on any of lifes emotive states, they are all magnificent and make us the unbelievable race of humans that we are. What we aren't always very good at is keeping the emotions from leading to behaviour patterns, turning us into angry, bitter and twisted up people full of tension and resentment.

 

I spent three years hating a person for something they did to me. Did she know or care, probably not, did it twist me up every time I thought of it, your dead right it did. What I've been able to do very recently is to accept that I'm angry at this person and the situation and as a result it's dissipated and left me free to forget it. Fantastic way to live eh? I'm now free from hate and the stress this causes my own body. Leaves more of me to love.

 

As I've said before, any little thing we can do to make this a happier life for us and all the people we come into contact with the better. If all of us let go of some tension and stress then we'd live and love much more freely. I'll try to find a lighter topic for my next post I promise, maybe something about flowers or puppies or something.

 

Love as always from my little corner of Devon

 

Sean

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