Feelings as medicine

Your feelings are our medicine.

They are here to bring us home to the nectar of our precious heart.

Many of us feel most challenged by the emotion of anger but it is here just to show us how we've turned away from ourselves & perhaps allowed others to mistreat us. It is also a healthy, natural, and necessary response to violation of our safety, physically or emotionally.

When held in the light, anger is simple & clear. It says “too far.” Too much. No more. Stop. Enough.

It shows us clearly where the integrity of ourselves & our values are. Anger says “this {whatever it is that is bringing up anger} violates what I hold dear & is against my heart. I will not participate.”

Is there any greater gift?

But anger needs to be held so tenderly, because it is strong & part of its function is to “move” us. This is why anger is like fire. It is why we feel the need to move our bodies with it. To shout with it.

While anger needs to be held tenderly & carefully, it also needs to be allowed. When we shame or suppress it, we are rejecting its gift of clarity. It’s also a gift for others in our lives who may be circling in harmful patterns because it can pierce directly through those patterns & breathes life into them. Anger offers an opening to wake up within our unconscious behaviors.

Anger {held & felt with safety & love as its container} is especially a healing gift to those who have suppressed themselves or been suppressed by others. It is especially important that those who’ve been abused in any way make room for anger & its insights so they can fully process & integrate their experiences.

Anger is so strong & clear that when you’re with it, it feels like it’s never going to leave. But, listening to our anger & making whatever changes are needed to care more deeply for ourselves will help it to soften into what it truly is ~ the deepest of sadnesses turned outward.

This is where anger begins to heal & we find a beautiful innocence, with its hopes & expectations, at its core.

Maybe ..

We wanted our body to be safe and someone violated it.

We wanted a mama & papa that were safe & loving, and we didn’t get that as a child.

We wanted something to be simple & instead it became a long & hard task.

We wanted love, in the ways that love felt real to our hearts, and we didn’t receive that from another.

We wanted something that we loved to stay in our life, like a job, friend, or a loved one who passed away, and it didn’t.

There are many innocent hopes & true needs underneath anger’s wild river, and they deserve a safe place in our humanity.

We are loved.