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How to Dissolve Challenges
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It is irrelevant whether we project our anger onto others or keep it smoldering inside. In both cases all channels through which we could gain new insights that may dissolve our anger - are blocked.
Anger wastes immense energy on fiercely MAINTAINING our present blockages. It thus stops us from freeing our life from exactly the restrictions we feel angry about.
What Causes Anger?
Anger occurs because of our readiness to engage in this type. of emotion, - NEVER BECAUSE OF A SPECIFIC EVENT!
No physical event ever compels us to react in an angry mode only. Events that e.g. trigger rage (or love) in one person will not engage this kind of reaction in others.
Events have no absolute connection to the emotions we feel while we experience them. There is no cosmic law that we always have to get angry when the car in front of us drives slower than we would like to go.
Events trigger feelings that exist dormant within us. Events make these dormant feelings resonate in our consciousness much as a glass resonates when a certain sound is struck. They then activate and push into the forefront of our awareness - just like a sound that comes to our attention.
If no latent feelings of anger lay dormant within us, there is no resonance and no event will ever trigger anger.
And this is the very key to once and for all eliminate anger and aggression from our life - dealing it out as well as being its target: