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By separating physical events from our emotional reaction to them, we gain control over these
feelings - and become able to dispel them. The key is - to understand that we are the only one responsible for our (angry) feelings, never any outside cause.
Certainly - this concept is far from our current understanding. Deeply programmed to accept external events as the only cause for anger, we might even get 'angry' at the suggestion that our own emotional reaction may be the very source of it - that we are responsible for it - and that can't possibly be.
Unfortunately the prevalent view that events cause anger doesn't offer effective mechanisms to fundamentally stop these irritations. We know that removing the physical cause of one particular annoyance does little to prevent future occurrences of similar events. It would take loads of money to eliminate all possible physical causes for all possible irritations, - only to notice that this strategy restricts our life to a severely limited, sterile environment.
To really stop anger and aggression from upsetting us ever again, we need a new concept, - one that works.
The new - consciousness-centered - model provides exactly this opening. By neutralizing our dormant feelings of anger we effectively remove ourselves from any active as well as passive manifestation of anger and violence - without having to invest enormous effort into controlling all our environment.
If we don't carry aggression within us, we also do not meet. it in our outer life.
