Do you know That Anger is a part of the necessary Seven Emotions for human beings, as recognized in Eastern medicine and philosophy?
The positive side of Anger is called Passion. Anger is the Passion for your life! Just like Shiva and Kali in Hindu gods and goddesses, two opposite characteristics are represented by one being.
Anger may be inconvenient when it is expressed negatively. It may exhaust and deplete our life energy and destroy a balance and harmony in the universe where his/her friends and family share.
However, Anger energy expressed positively and adequately can be transformed into passion, which is necessary for human beings to improve throughout life.
The passion for life! If you manage or suppress your passion, you stagnate in both body and mind. You may lose your life’s purpose, and as a result, you may not achieve anything, even proper maturity as a human being.
How does that make you feel if you do not have a purpose for your existence now and here?
As a result, your soul can be stagnate with frustration.
I recall that in the 1990s, there was a surge in popularity for “Anger Management.” Many self-help books and classes on the subject became available.
I read several references in both English and Japanese. All together describe why you can not be angry, but barely guide you on how not to be angry. So, what do those insinuate? Just suppress my anger because it is bad?
The more I learn about the idea, the more frustrated and angry I become. It was ironic that learning about Anger management made me angrier. Therefore, I needed to investigate Anger by consulting my inner self through participation in numerous meditation practices and retreats, as well as going through many references. Below, I present my understanding of Anger.
Let us learn the truth about ” ANGER “.
What is Anger? People push this particular emotion away by saying, ” Anger is Bad “. Is it true?
Anger may be inconvenient, but if it’s just bad, then why does it exist at all? Aren’t more people angry nowadays? We can see Angry energy in many people’s postures. They try not to let it out. However, people create tension by tightening their mouth and anus, which are both openings in our torso, running through the center of our body.
When Anger stagnates in one’s body, the longer it remains, the more this particular emotional energy harms one’s health. That’s for sure! But is anger itself bad?
I learned Japanese Hari, a Japanese style of acupuncture that is based on Chinese acupuncture. Therefore, we study the human health system through the Five Elements and the Five Phases.
Please see the chart I presented below:
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In the typical Eastern medicine concept, we believe that the 5 Yin organs (Spleen, Liver, Kidneys, Heart, and Lungs) and the 6 Yang organs (Stomach, Gallbladder, Bladder, Small Intestine, Large Intestine, and Triple Warmer) produce 7 emotional energies: Anger, Sadness, Grief, Fear, Anxiety, Surprise, and Joy. (Depending on the chart, there may be slightly different information presented.)
Each organ generates specific characteristics of energy based on its function, roles, and responsibilities, thereby maintaining harmony and balance in its interactions. When all eleven organs are working together harmoniously, this person can produce energy of good quality and quantity. Therefore, this person is in perfect health.
There is no division of good or bad among those 7 emotions. Anger is not negative than Joy, and Joy is not positive than Anger. All are neutral to each other, and all are necessary for human beings to be human, including Anger and Fear, which people tend to think of as negative. In the Eastern world, at least in authentic Japan, where I grew up, the concept of polarity did not exist until the country began its modernization.
When that emotional energy becomes bad or negative is the moment when the energy balance is lost, and one or more emotional energies become “excess” or “deficient”.
How can that happen?
Usually, unnatural food consumption is the cause.
For example, if one consumes too much indigestible food, such as junk, fake, or over-processed foods, then the spleen has to work harder and become exhausted. To create a spleen energy deficiency and cause you to feel anxious for no reason. When this condition becomes chronic, then your anxious energy becomes excessive. Too much anxious energy can be harmful as many of you know that.