Anger Management

When self awareness increases, one can judge situations leading to bouts of anger. The emotional pain can be due to a person or an event.
It is similar to watering a plant…..A sowed seed regularly watered grows into a sapling and finally blooms into a plant. Similarly, replaying the scenario causing anger in the mind leads to frustration and later into rage.
However, when the root cause of anger is known, we are faced with two choices-
1. Let go
2. Continue to create
Unfortunately, many of us, inspite of acknowledging the cause of this emotional trauma continue to remain angry. They find ways of justifying their anger and are addicted to it.
So friends, why not give it a try and let go so as to experience inner peace….

Love and Attachment

Love is an unconditional selfless state of being. Love has no desires nor expectations whereas attachment is a mental state born out of desires and relationships created in our minds. Our thoughts are constantly filled with images and memories which generate a lot of expectations. We start depending on these expectations for our happiness and well being. We forget that when these so called desires and expectations are not met, all the negative emotions set in. In other words we give rise to fear and anger and finally stress and anxiety.
So, dear friends do think, of those special people, of others, when it is necessary but do not lose your self in their image. This will free us from dependency, expectations, false desires and suffering.

Controlling Emotions

These five steps help keep check on our emotions.

1. Awareness - Being aware of the emergence of the finest of emotions which if unchecked lead to irritation ,to frustration, to anger, to rage. In other words.. Yes "the storm is about to set in".
2. Acknowledge - Understand and acknowledge the emotion, be responsible for its emergence.
3. Acceptance - Accept the presence of the emotion without resisting it. Resistence helps the emotion grow stronger and spring up later like a volcanic eruption..
4. Ascend - Take a deep breath.. Slowly exhale..Detach from the emotion and it's source. Observe the emotion lose power and dissolve.
5. Attune - Return to the inner centre of peace and bliss.

Faith

Faith is the foundation of our life upon which we work and build. Each of us is endowed with varying degrees of different talents, intelligence, social status and possessions. So why be jealous /envious of another. The focus of good and evil are in all of us. But we must learn and make efforts to free ourselves of the chains of hatred, malice and longing of material things. These talents and gifts carry corresponding responsibilities which we must meet with love in our heart and gratitude for being given an opportunity to serve. Faith combined with good deeds can surmount any obstacle.

Protective shield

Whenever someone sends you a negative message or a critical comment, imagine it comes towards you as a bullet, but one foot away it encounters a protective field made up of your inner soul power. This is the field of protective energy that is strengthened by the power of your inner peace. As the bullet meets the field, it deflects away and fizzles out against the wall. You remain unmoved and untouched. You look just for a second but directly into the eyes of the other and, with a quiet and peaceful smile, you send them a mini bullet of your own, carrying a very clear and compassionate message, which says, "Nice try."

Negative emotions

Anger, rage, frustration- all negative emotions drain us of our energy.
How do any of these emotions creep into our system?
We get upset when others do not live upto our expectations!!!
Stop, think for a moment! Why should he/she live upto our expectations?
Each one of us (souls) believe he/she is doing the correct thing. Therefore if we put ourselves in others' shoes, pause for a moment, we will realise that the opposite person did what he/she thought was correct.
So my friends, whenever you feel any negative emotion brewing, pause and give it a thought. Let the feeling pass. Do not get entangled in it.