The Healing Power of Anger

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Tolstoy famously opens Anna Karenina by declaring, “Every happy family is the same but unhappy families are all different.”  Over the years I’ve noticed healers have their own expression for a unique and challenging childhood — they call it “initiation.”

My initiation into healership happened early on.  My father had been one of the casualties of the Reagan Recession and found himself taking any meager job he could get, often far away, which meant we didn’t see him a lot. But with a hair-trigger temper and bipolar mood swings, my mother wasn’t meant to raise three children on her own.  Without any warning, a strange glaze would often slip over her once-caring eyes as she exploded into violent rages, screaming how “worthless” my siblings and I were and that she “wished we were never born.”  

Being a sensitive kid, I naturally took her anger to heart.  I often found myself falling into temper tantrums of my own to release the raging emotions I had absorbed.  But my mother punished me for this bad behavior and I learned to trap these humiliating emotions deep inside of me. I came to believe that my anger was a shameful thing that needed to be scuttled off into the shadowy corners of my life.  So I tucked those raw feelings into my gut, where they collected over time, building into full-blown panic attacks and depression once my teenage years hit.  These internalized aggressive energies would plague my entire adult life, that is until my mentor Barry Gordon at the Connecticut Healing Institute taught me “to love my anger.”

It all started with me sharing a story to my Bioenergetic healing classmates about how I was jumped by five teenagers in Brooklyn.  After hearing the tale, Barry suggested that I express my rage. “That perpetrator energy can stick with you if you don’t let it out,” he said.  But the last thing I wanted was be violent like those kids.  Barry then brought out his secret weapon for cases like me – a plastic baseball bat.  He asked me to beat a pillow with the bat, but I just didn’t have the heart.  It wasn’t in my nature, I thought.  So he asked the class for a volunteer.  

A housewife was the first to put her arm up.  “Who are you angry at?” Barry asked.  “God,” the woman was quick to answer.  Barry gave her the bat and she started swinging, taking a breath with each upswing and then letting out sharp words on the exhale.  Her voice grew loud and strong and she beat those pillows with all her might.  Suddenly, she wasn’t mad at God anymore, but her father and she yelled until the anger subsided and a new emotion was let loose — sorrow.  She sobbed and sobbed and when it was over, she looked more alive and healthier than I'd ever seen her before. Her anger had transmuted from volatile and dangerous electricity to a soothing, empowering force.

“God loves you for your anger,” Barry told the class.  “It means that you care.”

Inspired by the woman’s courage, I stood up next and picked up that bat.  I was also angry with God.  How could this divine power let humans be so rotten to each other?  Was this the best that grace could offer?  At first I couldn’t get into my anger.  It didn’t seem available.  I shrugged my shoulders, setting down the bat.  Barry wasn’t buying any of this.  “Look at me,” he pointed at his eyes.  “Sink into your anger.  Feel it.  Be it.”  I thought of all the violence terrorizing our world until my anger with God pumped through my veins.  I hit the pillow hard with the bat.  Molecules of rage rose out of my nervous abdomen and shot through my arms, releasing upon impact.  Primal roars shook out of my belly.  I hit and hit that pillow until it wasn’t God anymore, but my own mother that I was furious with.  How could she have been so cruel to her own children?  How could she not love us?  How could she not care?  How could she think she could get away with treating us the way she did?  

I crashed the bat on the pillow, yelling words of profanity with each blow. All that energetic rage my mother had put into my body came bursting out of my auric field, exploding against the pillow. Suddenly the wave of anger crested and the sorrow that had been smothered underneath floated to the surface.  I began to cry from the grief of growing up with a mother who didn’t know how to love her children.  As I did this, a sense of calmness overcame me as I realized that my mother did, in fact, love me. She’d always done the best that she could.  She had her own wounding that limited her capacity to express her love for us, just as my wounds had restricted me.  

When I got back home in New York, I decided to try something I rarely did – I gave my mother a call. She was cheerful and practically buzzing to hear how my “Big Apple adventures” were going.  I told her briefly about the healing program I was attending, wondering what she would think.  “I’m so proud of you,” she told me.   “I’m proud of all the things you’re doing.  You’re such a free spirit.  You always have been.  I know you’re following your heart.”  I could barely talk from the lump swelling in my throat.  I was so thankful for her love.  

After the call, I realized it was my own fault for having been estranged from my family over the years.  It had been more than a decade since my mother last raised her voice at me.  She had done her own personal work once the kids had left the nest.  It was time I did the same.  I also realized that Bioenergetic therapy had been right about my own energetic defenses.  According to this healing modality, many of our mental and physical illnesses are caused by not releasing the protective shields we put over us when experiencing traumatic events at a young age.  For the last twenty-plus years, the world had been changing around me but I was still viewing it from the frozen emotions of a small child.  I had trapped myself inside my own terror.

Recognizing my own anger helped me learn compassion for people with tempers.  I suddenly understood that they were dealing with some strong frequencies that desperately needed transmutation.  Unlike my mother, I had shut this force down inside of myself for years.  Rather than releasing it in quick outbursts, my rage would seethe out in ugly bits of passive aggressiveness. But now that my relationship with anger had shifted, I could see that these fierce emotions were a beautiful part of the human story, especially if they weren’t repressed, or expressed in inappropriate ways that hurt others.  Anger itself was a sharp, cleansing current that other emotions hitched a ride on when released.  It took a great deal of energy to keep this powerful force at bay.  So, for the first time since I was very young, I allowed myself to get angry here and there instead of cutting off these experiences before they arose.  I came to know my anger as a graceful wave, one that would roll over and then pass, but always making me feel more connected and loving afterward.

I kept regular “anger dates” with myself to release these destructive energies and purify my auric field.  Tension in my jaw, abdomen, and heart loosened through this process.  I became lighter and happier in my body, and with life in general.  Just before graduating healing school, I was given my “healer reading,” meaning my teachers would tune into the quantum field and express any words or thoughts that came to them about my upcoming practice.  Many of them said that writing and speaking would be just as important as holding private sessions with clients. Barry told us, “I hear anger keep coming up.  You need to speak about anger, teach people how to love it, and to release it.  Don’t forget anger is an important part of your healing path.”

Barry couldn’t have been more right.  During the course of my practice, I’ve come to love anger as one of the most powerful tools in my healer kit.  Internalized anger leads to a host of mental, physical, and spiritual “dis-eases,” including depression, anxiety, long-term grief, low self-esteem, masochist tendencies, fatigue, a sense of being overwhelmed, suicidal tendencies, and aggressive degenerative illnesses.  I find many of my clients are being attacked and imprisoned by their own energetic system. And one of the most effective ways to break them out of this vibrational cage is to help them connect with and transmute the very frequencies that are causing the problem.

Clients are often hesitant when I suggest getting in touch with their anger.  They’ve come to believe it is a shameful, dangerous, and impolite emotion, just as I had once believed.  Even as they grab a plastic bat, clench their fists to punch a pillow, or lift their foot to stomp the floor, they usually find themselves deflated in the final moment, saying things like, “I’m not angry right now” or “I just don’t feel it in me.”  I have a little healer trick for this.  Nothing gets people into their anger quicker than having them repeat,” “I won’t get angry! I won’t get angry!”  Just a few sentences of this will have them punching pillows for a much-needed release.

And this is when I get to observe the beauty of my clients and their ability to take their healing into their own hands. I hold space and serve as a witness to their process (having an active witness greatly augments the therapeutic process).  Meanwhile, they are breathing in to painful, disregarded aspects of themselves, and their bodies, pulling these energies up through their lungs and throat and releasing them through words and sound, and the physical power of their fists or feet. They make contact with stuck, blocked, dark, and negative emotions, discharging these vibrations from their energetic systems to be transmuted into light. Much of this converted energy reintegrates into their field, creating more space, power, creativity and love.  Once the anger is released, tears often surface as my clients let go of long-held shame and sorrow.  I then ask them to cycle the emotions they are feeling through their heart, which keeps the energy flowing for release and transmutation.  

Afterward, I like to run golden energy along the circumference of their auric body to help strengthen and seal their now more expansive field.  I also have them send healing energy (or sometimes prayers if they are inclined) to the ones they directed their anger to, which helps unstick some of the karmic bonds between them.  If there’s time after all of this, I will have them lie on the table to receive hands on healing work, as its easier to channel light in to these areas now that they’ve opened up.

I’ve met a number of energy healers that question the necessity of anger therapy and shadow work, saying that they only want to focus on the light, not on the dark. But I believe this "spiritual bypass" can hinder the healing process, as it only works on the surface, not going into the deeper woundings that need to be connected with and released in order to create the necessary space for light to come in.  Some argue that they don’t want to put negative energies like anger out into the universe.  In my experience, therapeutic anger work converts these denser vibrations into creative power, which then gets released as positive manifestation into the world.  Often there is a gentle feedback loop, where warm, healing frequencies boomerang back into the clients’ field once rage is released.

Another concern people have is that clients may become “anger addicts” or “rage-aholics.”  Although there is a potential for this, it seems unlikely as I encourage clients to create “anger dates” with themselves, so that the work happens in a safe, healing container.  For those who already have anger management issues, this process creates more mindfulness for when they experience rage in their daily lives, and they learn to discharge these energies in more appropriate contexts.  They also learn a way to channel anger when it arises by circulating these strong energies up and down the central channel of the spine, while staying centered in the loving, unifying vibrations of the heart.  They don’t project these potentially harmful vibrations on to others, nor do they deny these intense emotions (which leads to self-harm); rather, they cycle these potent frequencies up through their field, allowing for more personal strength and energetic support.

Unfortunately, in the United States, there are few outlets for people to express their anger in a therapeutic manner.  As discussed in my last RS article, “A Nation of Masochists,” Americans generally aren’t allotted a space to express their frustrations in a healthy manner, so we see this discontent expressed with societal phenomena like “road rage,” office shootings, bully bosses, and even the proliferation of Prozac and other mood suppressing pharmaceuticals. 

Fortunately, Americans can reach out to their local anger clinic, Bioenergetic therapist, or Core counseling center to help transmute unconscious rage into healing light.  My long-term hope and dream is that we can reintroduce the mystery schools to our educational curriculum (not just for kids, but for adults), where we create transformational structures to guide us along the initiatory path, connecting with and releasing our shadow energies to illuminate our lives, and the world around us.

In the meantime, I encourage readers to get to know their anger as it arises.  Don’t simply shut it down or wait for a rainy day to deal with those disruptive frequencies.  Treat yourself to an anger date. Climb a mountain and scream out a friend’s betrayal to the sky, grab a pillow and yell out that abandonment issue with your dad, dip your head under water and roar out that time the six-graders beat you up.  Breathe in, connect with, and release those energies to a sympathetic universe. As wild and unruly as it can be, once we give anger our attention and love, it becomes an amazing cosmic gift, one that enriches and empowers our lives.

Jonathan is a Bioenergetic Healer and Reiki Master. He has a private practice in NYC and does Skype sessions (He gives discounts to the Evolver community).  Jonathan will be facilitating an Energy Medicine School starting in January. www.talathealing.com

 

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Guide to Ketamine Treatments: Understanding the New Approach
Ketamine is becoming more popular as more people are seeing its benefits. Is ketamine a fit? Read our guide for all you need to know about ketamine treatments.

Ketamine Treatment for Eating Disorders
Ketamine is becoming a promising treatment for various mental health conditions. Read to learn how individuals can use ketamine treatment for eating disorders.

Ketamine Resources, Studies, and Trusted Information
Curious to learn more about ketamine? This guide includes comprehensive ketamine resources containing books, studies and more.

Ketamine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to ketamine has everything you need to know about this “dissociative anesthetic” and how it is being studied for depression treatment.

Ketamine for Depression: A Mental Health Breakthrough
While antidepressants work for some, many others find no relief. Read to learn about the therapeutic uses of ketamine for depression.

Ketamine for Addiction: Treatments Offering Hope
New treatments are offering hope to individuals suffering from addiction diseases. Read to learn how ketamine for addiction is providing breakthrough results.

Microdosing Ketamine & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing ketamine.

How to Ease a Ketamine Comedown
Knowing what to expect when you come down from ketamine can help integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible.

How to Store Ketamine: Best Practices
Learn the best ways how to store ketamine, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long ketamine lasts when stored.

How To Buy Ketamine: Is There Legal Ketamine Online?
Learn exactly where it’s legal to buy ketamine, and if it’s possible to purchase legal ketamine on the internet.

How Long Does Ketamine Stay in Your System?
How long does ketamine stay in your system? Are there lasting effects on your body? Read to discover the answers!

How Ketamine is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make Ketamine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how Ketamine is made.

Colorado on Ketamine: First Responders Waiver Programs
Fallout continues after Elijah McClain. Despite opposing recommendations from some city council, Colorado State Health panel recommends the continued use of ketamine by medics for those demonstrating “excited delirium” or “extreme agitation”.

Types of Ketamine: Learn the Differences & Uses for Each
Learn about the different types of ketamine and what they are used for—and what type might be right for you. Read now to find out!

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

MDMA & Ecstasy Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to MDMA has everything you want to know about Ecstasy from how it was developed in 1912 to why it’s being studied today.

How To Get the Most out of Taking MDMA as a Couple
Taking MDMA as a couple can lead to exciting experiences. Read here to learn how to get the most of of this love drug in your relationship.

Common MDMA Dosage & Microdosing Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing MDMA.

Having Sex on MDMA: What You Need to Know
MDMA is known as the love drug… Read our guide to learn all about sex on MDMA and why it is beginning to makes its way into couple’s therapy.

How MDMA is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make MDMA? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how MDMA is made.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

How Cocaine is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make cocaine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how cocaine is made.

A Christmas Sweater with Santa and Cocaine
This week, Walmart came under fire for a “Let it Snow” Christmas sweater depicting Santa with lines of cocaine. Columbia is not merry about it.

Ultimate Cocaine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
This guide covers what you need to know about Cocaine, including common effects and uses, legality, safety precautions and top trends today.

NEWS: An FDA-Approved Cocaine Nasal Spray
The FDA approved a cocaine nasal spray called Numbrino, which has raised suspicions that the pharmaceutical company, Lannett Company Inc., paid off the FDA..

The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Bioavailability
What is bioavailability and how can it affect the overall efficacy of a psychedelic substance? Read to learn more.

Cannabis Research Explains Sociability Behaviors
New research by Dr. Giovanni Marsicano shows social behavioral changes occur as a result of less energy available to the neurons. Read here to learn more.

The Cannabis Shaman
If recreational and medical use of marijuana is becoming accepted, can the spiritual use as well? Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Hamilton Souther, founder of the 420 Cannabis Shamanism movement…

Cannabis Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Cannabis has everything you want to know about this popular substances that has psychedelic properties.

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a procannabis Peruvian Shaman.

CBD-Rich Cannabis Versus Single-Molecule CBD
A ground-breaking study has documented the superior therapeutic properties of whole plant Cannabis extract as compared to synthetic cannabidiol (CBD), challenging the medical-industrial complex’s notion that “crude” botanical preparations are less effective than single-molecule compounds.

Cannabis Has Always Been a Medicine
Modern science has already confirmed the efficacy of cannabis for most uses described in the ancient medical texts, but prohibitionists still claim that medical cannabis is “just a ruse.”

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