When Anger Clears, Pain Has Room
Cuando la ira se despeja, el dolor tiene espacio
A question about working with intense emotions in the body, and how releasing anger can open the way to deeper feeling.
When Anger Clears, Pain Has Room
A question about working with intense emotions in the body, and how releasing anger can open the way to deeper feeling.
It's a bit like, you probably wouldn't recommend someone to hit the wall or anything like that, but if something is what the body wants to do…
If you're enraged, hit a pillow, yes.
Right, something the body wants to do.
Releasing emotion as groundwork
Exactly. Explore it. There are a lot of people doing that work, groups and all kinds of ways you can explore the release of emotion, going into feeling it. That kind of work is a lot more available than deeper spiritual work, but it's part of it. It's necessary. Otherwise it just becomes an obstacle, a block.
You can explore on your own, or you can explore with others. Usually, as we release the anger, we come into the pain more openly. You might find that after you release anger by screaming, hitting a pillow, or grabbing something (just make sure you don't hurt yourself, or anything or anyone around you), you have more room for the pain.
Yeah.
You see that.