by Natalie Case

Created on: January 18, 2007   Last Updated: May 11, 2007

My spiritual calling has always been to the healing of emotional and spiritual pain. The people who seek me out have been hurt, deeply and in ways they can't even necessarily define with words.

Nearly every one has asked me about "dealing" with their anger. The common message seems to be that anger is bad, that we shouldn't feel anger. Personally, I think that's not true.

Emotion serves a purpose, even the darker ones. They can be tools that help us learn, help us cope, help us grow and heal. Anger is no exception.

What needs to be "dealt" with is the way in which we handle anger...what we do or don't do with it once it exists.

I teach a few basics:

1) No one makes you angry, you are responsible for your own anger. It belongs to you and you alone.

2) Like any other emotion, anger should be felt and understood. Burying it only makes it stronger, and doesn't address the causes for it.

3) Anger is no excuse to treat others, or yourself, as less than a beautiful child of the Divine.

In order to successfully navigate anger, or any emotion, a person must give themselves the space to feel it, to experience it and understand it...to realize where the emotion comes from and why and to make decisions on how to respond.

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