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❤️🔥 Day 1: the origins of anger ❤️🔥
The Anger Cleanse starts today! Some of you have access to the full ritual and will have access to amazing resource live incubation calls and more but for those who don't I wanted to give you a little peak of the magic we are working with. Here is the prompt for day 1 of the anger cleanse. If you would like to join, you're welcome to here. Enjoy!
We begin this work by talking about the origins of your anger. Many believe that you must dig for anger.
That you have to sift through your life looking for moments of injustice or slight. I have found that anger is a lot louder than that and does not get repressed easily.
The simplest approach is to look at your life and to look at the interpersonal or situational dynamics that make you feel angry. Where do you feel upset, frustrated, unheard, misrepresented, disrespected?
What conversations irritate you?
When did you last immediately want to share the details of an issue with a friend or loved one?
You don’t need a list of instances, you just need a single moment.
You see, we feel angry because our body feels threatened.
We are at risk, our egos are at risk, something or someone we care about is at risk.
We feel anger when we feel powerless, overwhelmed, stressed, and ashamed
The uncertainty and lack of safety creates a fight, flight, or freeze response within us.
Basically our body goes into problem solving mode.
For some, anger will feel very easy to map just from the above description.
You will consider your road rage, your co-worker that never makes a new pot of coffee after he has the last cup, your partner dismissing a concern that felt important to you, and your dog peed on your new pair of shoes.
Amazing, pick the most visceral expression of anger and focus on that for today's ritual. Bring up other visceral examples of anger as you move through the activity if your anger needs more fuel.
For some, you will notice anger doesn’t feel natural. In the moment you will freeze, dissociate, or want to cry about the situation.
Start slow as you move through the ritual and try to stay and embrace the feelings of anger you hold inside.
For some you may try to go into problem solving mode.
You will try to defend your perspective, explain yourself to someone else, or smooth over your feelings of frustration by considering how you can better accommodate another person.
We will talk about problem solving and people pleasing more on day 2 when we discuss boundaries but for now you were taught to rationalize disrespect to yourself by giving the other party the benefit of the doubt.
For now, just know this is really really common if you experience systemic oppression.
So what what anger is most alive for you right now?
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❤️🔥 Day 1: the origins of anger ❤️🔥
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