There are angers that burst out.
And others that stay inside.
We say that it is fine.
We finish the conversation.
We move on to something else on the surface.
Later.
We think back to what happened.
To the words we would have liked to say.
To what we accepted even though we did not want to.
The body.
For its part.
Has not always turned the page.
Tonight,
I would like to offer you another relationship with this anger.
You do not have to show it to someone.
Nor to stifle it in order to be a good person.
You can listen to it long enough to understand what it is protecting.
Often.
At the center of its force.
There is a boundary that was crossed.
A fatigue that went unnoticed.
Or a need for respect.
This meditation will help you recognize this message.
Then let your body leave the state of alert.
Anger will have had the right to speak.
You,
You will be able to rest.
I recommend that you practice this session for at least 30 consecutive nights.
Letting each listening show you something slightly different.
Settling to your bed.
The meditation will begin shortly.
Start by feeling your belly with the movement of the breath.
It rises slightly as the air enters.
Then returns as it leaves.
Let this rhythm happen.
At the next exhalation.
Feel the bed beneath your pelvis.
Your pelvis can rest more heavily.
Your thighs follow.
Your knees relax.
Than your calves and your ankles.
Your heels touch the mattress.
Your feet rest all the way into your toes.
Then come back to your belly.
And may have carried many things today.
Your chest opens to the passing of the air.
Your back widens against the bed.
With each breath,
Your shoulder blades release a small part of their effort.
Your shoulders lower.
The relaxation moves down your arms.
Passes through your elbows.
And reaches your hands.
Your fingers can loosen.
Each in its own way.
Your neck surrenders to the pillow.
Feel your throat.
This passage through which so many words could have come out.
It can rest as well.
Your jaw gradually unclenches.
Your tongue finds a quiet place in your mouth.
Your face takes on a softer expression.
Your forehead.
Your temples.
The area around your eyes release what they were still holding.
Take the time to feel your whole body.
From your feet to your head.
There may remain some tension somewhere.
And the rest can already rest around it.
A slightly longer breath now crosses your chest.
As you exhale.
Your body receives the right.
Not to remain on standby.
Once again.
The air enters and leaves without particular effort.
The mattress carries your weight.
The knight expects no immediate answer from you.
While your body is calming down.
Allow your unconscious to open like a hall,
Where the voice finally finds its true resonance.
And now.
Imagine on your inner screen.
You arrive in a small theater open to the sky.
The stone tiers form a semicircle around a central space.
There is no show and no audience to convince.
The end of the day colors the top of the walls a pale pink.
Under your feet.
The stone is even.
Slightly warm.
You walk toward the center and discover that a word spoken here can be heard clearly.
Even when it is said very softly.
At the edge of the tears.
A scene from your life can appear.
Recent or older moment when you felt anger rising and you kept it inside.
The scene appears at the distance that suits you.
Perhaps you recognize a sentence.
A gesture.
A look.
You can let just enough details return to understand what touched you.
Where were you?
What was the other person doing?
At what moment did you feel that something was going beyond your boundary?
Pause.
In the theater.
Your body is safe.
You can notice what the scene awakens without having to go back into it completely.
The anger may have a shape.
A sound.
A warmth.
A pressure.
It can occupy your chest.
Your hands.
Or your belly.
Let it exist for a few moments.
At the right intensity for you.
Its energy does not necessarily call for a sudden gesture.
It may simply be asking to be acknowledged.
You watch the scene a second time.
This time.
Pay attention to the precise moment when you faded in front of what was happening.
Perhaps you answered all right while your body was saying something else.
Perhaps you kept smiling.
Perhaps you replied.
But without being able to express the real point of pain.
The story belongs to you.
The theater for its part.
Gives you the time to look at it clearly.
In the center of the stage.
A round stone marks the place where the voice carries best.
You place your feet there.
A question then forms.
Simple and useful.
What did my anger want to protect?
Allow yourself a pause.
It may be your time.
Your dignity.
A need for help.
A more respectful way of speaking to you.
Let your answer come in your own words.
Pause.
You can say it here.
Very softly.
It echoes against the tears,
Comes back toward you.
And you hear it in turn.
If no exact word appears,
You can simply breathe at the center of this stone.
The body sometimes recognizes a boundary.
Before knowing how to put it into words.
Take a few moments to feel the difference between anger that goes round in circles and a boundary that is beginning to take shape.
A low bench stands in the front row.
You can sit there.
In the stone of the theater.
Can see small lines left by rain and time.
Each has its own direction.
You gently run your hand along the edge of the bench.
This solid material helps you stay with what you have discovered.
The force that had gathered in your body can now find another use.
It supports a right word.
A clear decision.
A step aside when you need it.
I invite you to repeat silently after me.
My anger can help me recognize what matters to me.
A new scene appears a few steps away from you.
It looks like the first one.
With the same people and the same circumstances.
But it leaves you more room.
You can observe your posture in this moment.
Your breath drops lower.
You feel the ground.
When words hit you,
You have time to respond.
What short and true sentence could you say?
It can be as simple as.
.
.
I would like us to speak differently.
I need a moment.
Or a sentence that resembles you more.
You can try your own wording here.
Where every word has the right to be heard.
Pause.
Listen to the sentence in the theater.
A boundary does not need an endless speech to exist.
It can fit into a steady voice.
Into a refusal.
Into a request expressed clearly.
If the real situation allowed no response at all in the moment.
The experience here still allows you to recognize what would have been right for you.
The past keeps its facts.
Your body can learn another way of standing in front of them today.
You leave the center of the stage and climb a few steps.
From there.
You can see the entire theater.
The feeling that filled all the space now takes its true place in a larger story.
It has brought information.
You no longer need to ask it to stand guard all night.
Feel.
In your body.
What changes when a force stops turning in on itself and begins to support your place?
On the highest tier you see a version of yourself who has already learned to recognize this difference.
He can feel anger rising without getting lost in it.
He knows how to pause.
Then speak with words he stands by.
Watch him move through an ordinary exchange.
How does he stand?
Where does his gaze go?
And what happens to his breathing after he has said what needed to be said.
Let this scene take the form that speaks to you.
Pause.
You can receive from him a very simple quality.
Perhaps a way of placing his feet.
Or leaving a second before answering.
Welcome it into your own body.
Right where you are.
The person in front of you may hear or may not hear.
That belongs to them.
You find your voice again and the right to care for the boundary it has just named.
I invite you to repeat silently after me.
My voice can remain calm.
And carry a clear boundary.
The sky above the theater gently darkens.
The tears keep the memory of what has been said.
And you can leave them the words you no longer need tonight.
You thank your anger for the information it has given you.
Then you let this image go.
Let the visualization slip away.
The stones.
The bench.
And the central space.
The recognized boundary can remain within you while the rest rests.
In your bed.
Feel your throat becoming more peaceful.
Your mouth rests.
Your face lets go of the expression you may have been carrying since daytime.
Your shoulders give their weight to the mattress.
And your arms follow.
There is space in your chest for a full breath.
The air enters.
It leaves.
Each movement makes the next one easier.
A little theater moves away like a place you leave after an important conversation.
You have nothing to add.
The sentences spoken remain there in their place.
Your mind can stop repeating them to check whether they were strong enough.
They have been heard in the experience you have just lived.
Now.
The silence of the night can meet you.
Feel your pelvis.
Your legs.
Your feet.
This whole part of the body can become heavier.
The breath follows a short,
Familiar path.
You can feel the air at the entrance of your nostrils.
Than the slight relaxation of the exhale.
At this time of night,
Your task is to let yourself be carried.
The exchanges of the day remain behind you.
The body settles into its rest.
One last image can appear.
At the center of the theater.
The round stone receives the light of the moon.
It stays there.
Steady.
While you sleep.
There is no need to go back and see it.
You know it exists.
The night moves forward with a slow,
Steady pace.
Your breathing moves forward with it.
Then the image itself becomes distant.
And only the sensation remains of being lying down.
Supported.
Free to sleep.
Your thoughts gradually lose their urgency.
One idea appears and drifts away.
Another can wait until morning.
Sleep approaches without asking for any effort.
Your eyelids stay closed.
Your neck is supple.
Your belly follows the rhythm of the breath.
You can surrender to this rhythm.
One breath after another.
Until my voice fades into the background.
And if you are not asleep yet.
Please repeat the following positive affirmations.
Until you fall asleep.
Your unconscious will then take over.
My anger brings me information.
I can take the time to understand this information.
My voice finds simple words.
I respect my own pace.
My boundaries deserve space.
I can breathe before I answer.
My body regains its calm.
I listen to what matters to me.
I stand with more stability.
I give my voice a rightful place.
One clear sentence can be enough for me.
I connect with my quiet strength.
I feel the ground under my feet.
My breath supports my words.
I can ask for respect.
I recognize the moment to pause.
My dignity remains within me.
I allow my body to leave the state of alert.
I know how to speak from a calmer place.
I trust what I have understood.
The night receives what has been expressed.
My shoulders let go.
My throat rests.
I find a free breath.
I let my day move away.
My body welcomes the silence.
I go down toward a deep rest.
Sleep comes in its own time.
I let myself sleep peacefully.
My anger brings me information.
I can take the time to understand this information.
My voice finds simple words.
I respect my own pace.
My boundaries deserve space.
I can breathe before I answer.
My body regains its calm.
I listen to what matters to me.
I stand with more stability.
I give my voice a rightful place.
One clear sentence can be enough for me.
I connect with my quiet strength.
I feel the ground under my feet.
My breath supports my words.
I can ask for respect.
I recognize the moment to pause.
My dignity remains within me.
I allow my body to leave the state of alert.
I know how to speak from a calmer place.
I trust what I have understood.
The night receives what has been expressed.
My shoulders let go.
My throat rests.
I find a free breath.
I let my day move away.
My body welcomes the silence.
I go down toward a deep rest.
Sleep comes in its own time.
I let myself sleep peacefully.
My anger brings me information.
I can take the time to understand this information.
My voice finds simple words.
I respect my own pace.
My boundaries deserve space.
I can breathe before I answer.
My body regains its calm.
I listen to what matters to me.
I stand with more stability.
I give my voice a rightful place.
One clear sentence can be enough for me.
I connect with my quiet strength.
I feel the ground under my feet.
My breath supports my words.
I can ask for respect.
I recognize the moment to pause.
My dignity remains within me.
I allow my body to leave the state of alert.
I know how to speak from a calmer place.
I trust what I have understood.
The night receives what has been expressed.
My shoulders let go.
My throat rests.
I find a free breath.
I let my day move away.
My body welcomes the silence.
I go down toward a deep rest.
Sleep comes in its own time.
I let myself sleep peacefully.
My anger brings me information.
I can take the time to understand this information.
My voice finds simple words.
I respect my own pace.
My boundaries deserve space.
I can breathe before I answer.
My body regains its calm.
I listen to what matters to me.
I stand with more stability.
I give my voice a rightful place.
One clear sentence can be enough for me.
I connect with my quiet strength.
I feel the ground under my feet.
My breath supports my words.
I can ask for respect.
I recognize the moment to pause.
My dignity remains within me.
I allow my body to leave the state of alert.
I know how to speak from a calmer place.
I trust what I have understood.
The night receives what has been expressed.
My shoulders let go.
My throat rests.
I find a free breath.
I let my day move away.
My body welcomes the silence.
I go down toward a deep rest.
Sleep comes in its own time.
I let myself sleep peacefully.
My anger brings me information.
I can take the time to understand this information.
My voice finds simple words.
I respect my own pace.
My boundaries deserve space.
I can breathe before I answer.
My body regains its calm.
I listen to what matters to me.
I stand with more stability.
I give my voice a rightful place.
One clear sentence can be enough for me.
I connect with my quiet strength.
I feel the ground under my feet.
My breath supports my words.
I can ask for respect.
I recognize the moment to pause.
My dignity remains within me.
I allow my body to leave the state of alert.
I know how to speak from a calmer place.
I trust what I have understood.
The night receives what has been expressed.
My shoulders let go.
My throat rests.
I find a free breath.
I let my day move away.
My body welcomes the silence.
I go down toward a deep rest.
Sleep comes in its own time.
I let myself sleep peacefully.