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There seems to be confusion a-plenty around the emotion of anger, and if people don't start paying attention to my clarification, I'm going to become, well, just plain angry!

Ha - JUST KIDDING! (But don't push it.)

The topic of anger came up last night in a book study group that Mark and I enjoy attending, and one woman mentioned that she considered anger against injustice and wrong-doing to be a positive thing. After all, didn't Jesus himself, in a fit of anger, run the money-changers out of the temple? (The New Testament relates this incident.)

Other folks felt that sometimes anger feels good, as in the case of venting. Friends of ours, Joanna and Aaron, mentioned that when they lived in San Diego, they discovered a business where you could actually pay to release anger and frustration by throwing and breaking plates and glasses! (That business could prolong the life of one's personal kitchen items!)

Is anger good? Is anger bad? Is anger good when it's confined to punching a pillow but bad when it, for instance, involves hurting a person?

Even with a degree in psychology, I never happened on a consistent, viable theory about dealing with anger - until I discovered the teachings of [fill in the blank here.]

You guessed it! Abraham-Hicks. com. Ta-da!

Emotions aren't good or bad; they are, rather, messages sent quite regularly, if not constantly, from our Inner Being. They are vitally important indicators of what we have been thinking about, where we have been focusing our attention.

Abraham says that there are really only two emotions - bad-feeling ones such as resentment, self-pity, anxiety, envy, etc., and good-feeling ones such as joy, love, appreciation, hope, and contentment, for example. Good-feeling emotions indicate that we're thinking thoughts that align with the way our joyful Inner Being views things and thus we are moving towards manifestation of our desires. Bad-feeling emotions indicate the opposite.

Bad-feeling emotions are bad for us; good-feeling emotions are good for us. Good-feeling emotions carry us "down-stream," in Abraham parlance, where everything that we want awaits us. Bad-feeling emotions carry us upstream to...well, hello slippery rocks and bashed-in boats.

So, where does anger fall in this categorization?

Anger feels better than immobilizing despair or depression, so if we're choosing angry thoughts over previously depressed thoughts, we're very likely feeling better and thus going in a direction that is in our own best interest. Anger, however,

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