Anger 1: the importance of expressing it [A25]

Before starting, I wanted to explain to you the course of this session and the next ones, because we have decided to take up a subject – in this case «anger» – and to do what one can do, knowing the Teaching, in examining something particular like this emotion.

[…] So: what is anger? How would you classify it? As an emotion, of course. As you know, emotions are also reflected on the physical, therefore, to manifest themselves within the life that the individual leads, they need the physical body. This means that by being attentive to one's physical body, to one's reactions in moments of anger, one can realize what anger causes within the physiology of the physical body. Here, start from this point: if you have experienced anger, in your opinion what are the elements that had repercussions and how they manifested themselves through your physical body.

D – Of course, the blood obviously flows to the head excessively, you feel the pressure rising. Here it is difficult, in my opinion, to distinguish between aggression and anger because, at a certain point, anger also makes you aggressive.

So we have already found a component to combine with anger, which – according to our friend – makes it largely indissociable from the individual's aggressive drive. Do you agree?

D - No. Because aggression is the external manifestation of anger. Anger doesn't necessarily express itself through aggressive behavior, in my opinion.

Io I would say that aggression it can be considered - when associated with anger, for it may or may not be associated with it - as one of the ways in which anger can manifest itself within the physical plane; Therefore it is a consequence of the manifestation of anger. Naturally, anger cannot always be followed by an aggressive manifestation; it is difficult, however, to be able to understand when the aggression is actually inside but is not physically expressed. I would say that, usually, the anger reaction is always a peak. Do you remember what peaks are?

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I «vibratory peaks» are the points of maximum vibration in the expression of a feeling, an emotion, a reaction of any kind. And anger, by its very connotation, is clearly a vibratory peak, that is, a sudden explosion of emotion that reaches a maximum, and then decreases or, at worst, stops completely when the energies are completely thrown out and, therefore, there is that moment of stasis which brings the individual back to the current equilibrium. (Here he clearly speaks of externalized anger, not of that angry brooding that is more of a base note than a peak. Ed.)

And aggressiveness clearly falls within the typology of the peak, for which the manifestation repeats this peak on the physical plane through a strong reaction, therefore an aggressive reaction towards others or, at times, even towards oneself through some form of self-harm.

[…] I would say that, in reality, there is no standard way in which the individual expresses anger. Everyone, of course – and if you think about it, it can only be like this, knowing the Teaching – expresses any feeling he expresses on the physical plane through his own evolutionary path, his own evolutionary needs. So what can happen?

Whether there is the individual who expresses anger aggressively and perhaps even with violence taken to the extreme, reaching the point of killing another person to put an end to that peak of emotion that he can no longer control, with all the intermediate gradations up to get to the individual who manages instead to block the anger within himself, to not let the anger that is turning him upside down at that moment transpire. Each of you expresses it to a greater or lesser extent, unlike how everyone else expresses it.

[…] If you think about it, among the ways of expressing anger, for example, without appearing angry, there is that of making faces and pretending that «anyhow, I don't care, but in the meantime I'm not talking to you !»; that of saying, as some do: «Yes, yes, do whatever you want, everything is fine with me, I follow you, I help you as much as I can, but then, as soon as it happens, I'll make you pay in some indirect way! ».

At that point one slips into resentment; it would be much better to express your anger and let it manifest itself trying to contain it within the limits; that it manifests and throws out the energy of the vibratory peak and so it quiets down a little at a time, otherwise it stays inside and the energies are looking for all the sideways ways out, doing far more damage than if the rabies came out naturally.

D – But it scares me a little when it comes out.

I repeat: if you force anger not to come out but you don't know how to release it, anger stays inside you and in the end it does more damage than if it really came out.

D – You somatize even more.

This is another element to bear in mind, namely the psychosomatic reaction of anger; what can provoke, from a psychosomatic point of view, to express anger or to hold back anger. This too is a topic to think about, which you will remind me of in future meetings.

Q – If I'm angry with a person, and I don't have him in front of me, how can I get him out?

But to let anger out, the other person, the object of the anger, doesn't need to be there; just say one string of swear words to release the tension of anger; what you call swear words, at least. That of profanity is a somewhat particular topic, because you call them "profanity" and you don't realize that over the centuries profanity has always changed and it is not possible to define unequivocally in all societies which are profanity and which are profanity.

Certainly, expressing one's tension through a so-called swear word, one that is at least stigmatized by a transitory archetype that one is experiencing, provokes a sense of satisfaction because the Ego says to itself: «Look how good I am, I even go against conventions and manage to be transgressive!». And you know that the ego flaunts itself in these things!

[...] D - An individual then, in the long run is physically worn out by anger...

Anger, as we said, is a peak and it can happen sometimes, in some rare cases, that a person's anger lasts for a long time, however, usually, as time goes by, the peak exhausts his energy and the anger a little at a time it dissolves; rabies, two years later, is no longer the same as when it was born.

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