Rage

Hi Izz, hope you're okay. I noticed you had a lot in you. So, as for consuming... Been there.

It's really dirty.

And if you can realize you are heading there, then you aren't yet. I can tell you this much, and I don't wish you or my worst ennemy a tenth of it. When you're there, you're digging so hard by slamming your foot down and using your nails, you don't realize the one you're hurting is you.

When it happened to me, it took a whole lot. Working 14 hours a day and living with a slob who not only wouldn't clean, but make the place dirtier. Having daily death threats by customers, bombing the place I worked at to be clear, because they wouldn't get their smartphone handed on a silver platter, or a dude coming to your workplace with a knife and the intention to take down as many people as possible, and.. I'll stop here so as to not be impolite.

That being said, at some point, some day, rage is exhausted, and all you're left with is you. And then you wake up!

Sounds good! You're up and about, joyful and all, until you realize how much of a maze you created for yourself.

I'm not going to tell you what to do with your rage, I've been there and know it makes no sense. But, once it stops, it's important you know that if you found yourself in that position, it's because you put yourself there. It also means, you wouldn't be there if you couldn't deal with it.

From someone who's walking back up, not crawling.

Rage, by essence is destructive, you don't implement it constuctively. You let it destroy things and then build up again.

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by iamthat

The source of our rage is within ourselves. The other person is merely the trigger.

Yup, deal with the trigger inside. Rage is now in my very distant past. Thank God!
If a person, yes, getting the person out of your life is good...but guess what?? Another takes their place one day!
(Until resolved once and for all ...'overcoming' the issue is a good word....getting your power back is very imp.)

[Izz]

Thank you so much for these detailed responses

[Joe Mc]

Just responding here to my post on Rage. It
reminded me of a time when I was theorising around
the whole area of violence and rage and what it meant.
I remember concluding things like the idea of 'sensitivity' to anger, rage
and danger. I think this is a general idea and may be different to
what people have talked about here concerning 'Triggers'. What i'm trying to say
is there may be some difference between having a heightened awareness or sensitivity
around violence and what folks call Triggers. That may or may
not be the next step.
So the whole sensitivity thing is often concerned with some form of trauma
and PTSD. Folks who have had a significant trauma as a result of violence which I myself had,
are very much more aware of 'Violence' in general within society. I give one example. One night I was
walking along a High Street in London, as I did most everyday. I felt a dark shadow pass over my chest area, a pain,
a sensation, an intuiton, as if dark forces were out and at play. Thing was I was conscious of it and I knew there was a malevolence there.
Later that night on the same street two people were stabbed, one died if I remember correctly. I knew the next day that my intuition had
spoken about the event to me. To warn me ? Perhaps, or to inform me.I have also had two or more significant precognitive dreams
concerning world disasters before they happened, 9/11 being one. I am not trying to paint myself out here to be Baba Vanga lol , just recounting my story.
Anyway did my sensitivity towards violence come from my PTSD ? Did I develop antennae to detect when something
is about to 'kick' off ? And is that a good or a bad thing, those were the questions and still are to a lesser extent.
I also around this time became aware and intrigued about how alot of spiritual masters and teachers were able to divert violence
against themselves and others, days, hours, weeks, years before it actually executed against them. Also Martial Artists have a sensitivity and know when something is going to 'kick off'. Then you have personal relationships, is the 'potential anger' within a personal relationship
somehow related to types of anger going on around and about us or is it a unique type of situation ? Anyway thanks for the opportunity, I felt I needed to say those things. :)

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[RedEmbers]

I'm working on it!

Underneath the rage is deep pain, fear and sadness.


When I feel relief, it is because I am directing my energy towards healthy and empowering things which I have control over.