Hello everyone!
I am sharing today a bit of our ALIGN process. We have been working with the chakras and next week we will be in the fourth chakra, the heart. This coincides with our ALIGN Night CLASS, which is open and free to all who would like to come. It will be about 45 minutes and focus on intuitive practices for the heart field. It will be yummy and I hope you can join. Link to sign up.
This week in ALIGN we are exploring the third chakra and today our theme was Anger.
To me: Anger is one of those super confounding energy currents in my system. I know it has a place, an important one, I know it is powerful and relates to boundaries, integrity, and protection. I know that suppressed anger is extremely damaging when it shoots outside, or inside in damaging and inappropriate ways.
Yet a healthy expression of anger is still so hard for me to land on, I get easily overwhelmed. And, like learning to really feel our grief, love, or joy, the nuance and intelligence of working with anger in a healthy way, is rarely modeled or taught in our communities, family systems, schools, or culture.
In ALIGN I offered a series of journal questions (see below)
The one that really got me was:
Do I trust my anger?
I thought that is the key between this powerful current acting in service or in damage. Do I trust it? Do I trust when I have an intuition, a discomfort, a frustration about a person, place, or situation that there is vital insight being distributed? That the fire is acting as a cleansing, healing, and transformative power?
The current answer is No, or well sometimes.
The thing about suppressed energy is it is volatile, it is holding to what has not been moved from the past, often long ago past, and sometimes what is not even our own past, and so it is somewhat untrustworthy to guide us in presence in the moment. This is the issue with us humans, our instincts and habits that keep us surviving not matter the cost are also the ones that can block us, weigh us down.
Another important question here was:
What is my ally in a healthy relationship with anger?
What came to me was: laughter.
This makes sense to me! Think of the relief of a big belly laugh, clearing out the stagnancy in the third chakra, helping our diaphragm, breath, voice, and heart do what they do best: refresh and renew our energy.
Other potential allies may be movement, singing, sounding, playing sports, journaling, even screaming in your car. You can get help by being in a class, working theraputically with a professional, leaning in to a trusted friend. It may be you are in a place to understand more deeply where the anger comes from, how it has played a role in your life. All with the intention to clear old stagnancies and support fresh and present energy. Releasing in order to bring into focus what is actually here now.
I hope with continued practice I can learn to trust my anger more and more, trust that when it rises it is having an in the moment response to a real life situation. Trust that I can then mobilize it energetically in real time in service to life, in service to my values, in service to the wellness of all beings, or move it through an another way that is aligned to the moment. That is real fire transformation.
Much love to you all,
Tracy
JOURNAL PROMPTS; ANGER (written as you would ask yourself)
1. How was anger viewed in my family growing up? (As in what was I told about it.)
2. How was anger expressed in my family growing up? (As in how did it actually live.)
3. What role has anger played in my life?
4. Do I trust my anger?
5. What typically kicks up anger in me?
6. Am I angry about anything now?
(Take a breath, feel your legs, feet, belly and ask your intuition to answer this next question:)
7. What is my ally in a healthy relationship to anger?
