Welcome,
And thank you for taking this moment for yourself,
Wherever you are,
And whenever you're listening.
I honor that you've made the decision to pause and breathe and return to your center.
Today's practice is here to help you gently transform anger,
The kind of anger that arises from personal stress,
From the intensity of the world right now,
And from the subtle ways that current events can activate old patterns beneath the surface.
We're not here to suppress the feeling of anger or to bypass it,
But perhaps to alchemize it into some kind of clarity,
Presence,
And grounded courage.
So when you're ready,
Prepare your space,
And then allow your body to settle.
Let your shoulders drop,
Let your breath soften,
And just give yourself permission to be supportive.
Beginning with a slow,
Gentle inhale through your nose,
And a long,
Relaxed exhale through the mouth.
Again,
Slowly in through the nose,
And a long exhale through the mouth,
Allowing yourself to arrive.
Feel the support of the ground beneath you,
The earth itself holding your weight,
The breath moving through you,
Steady,
Ancient,
Trustworthy,
And even as the world feels full and turbulent,
Right now,
Right here,
There's just you and this breath.
From this space of being grounded and safe and connected,
Gently bring your awareness to the presence of anger.
Not the story around it,
Not a particularly flashy news story,
Not the external trigger itself,
But hone in on the sensation of anger down to the root.
Where do you feel it in your body?
Is it heat?
Is it a tightness?
Is there a pressure,
A type of knot,
A flare?
Just notice without trying to fix it,
Simply acknowledging its presence,
Resisting any urge to suppress it,
To escape it,
Or to tell a story about it.
Again,
Simply acknowledging it.
Now,
Imagine that this sensation of anger that you've identified,
Whatever and wherever it may be in your body,
Is pulled and held gently into the center of your chest.
Resist any urge to judge it,
Resist any drive to want to solve it,
And just witness it.
Imagine now a soft golden light gathering around that heat in the center of your chest.
It's warm,
It's steady,
It's compassionate.
This golden light isn't simply cooling this anger,
It's beginning to transform it.
Allow that flow of light to continue into this space where you're holding the sensation of anger,
Not the story,
The raw root of the sensation of this anger.
This golden light flowing into it,
Transforming it.
And as you breathe in,
The light grows warmer.
As you breathe out,
This sensation of anger begins to soften.
Breathing in,
That light gets brighter.
Breathing out,
The heat of the anger loosens its grip,
Dissipating more and more with each cycle of breath.
And again and again with every breath,
Allowing the anger to shift from any sense of tightness to a warmth.
From heat into the light of illumination,
From any sense of constriction into a spacious clarity.
You may begin to notice a feeling beneath the anger without any judgment.
Be open,
Be curious about what wants to emerge as this surface level sensation of anger has begun to dissipate.
Perhaps there's an unmet need,
A boundary that has been or was crossed,
A truth that was ignored,
Or simply the emotional weight of a heavy world pressing inward into your innermost being.
But let this light that you're generating hold all of that.
You're not forcing anything to happen.
You're simply allowing things to settle in the space that you're holding.
Again,
Allow this light,
This illumination coming from the center of your chest to continue to spread through the ribs,
Up through the shoulders,
Down the spine and into the belly,
Out into the hands and the fingertips,
Anywhere and everywhere that the anger once influenced is now filled with this light of clarity.
Any excess as it spills from your body,
The earth beneath you receives.
The earth and its infinite wisdom knows exactly how to receive and compost any extra energy,
Easily transmuting this extra anger.
As it dissipates from you and falls into the earth,
It in fact becomes nourishment for the earth itself that it will recycle and transform and transmute into energy for its own vitality.
Keep allowing this excess transformed anger to flow downwards into the earth,
Into the steady ground.
In reality,
The earth has been holding our human emotions since the beginning.
It knows exactly what to do.
Continue to breathe nice and easy in and out through the nose and without forcing anything,
Allow your awareness to widen again like a sky opening up after a storm and just acknowledge.
Yes,
The world does feel intense right now.
Yes,
The news cycle feels like a barrage of toxicity.
Yes,
The collective mind and heart and body is stirred right now,
But still above and beyond all that,
There's a vast and unbreakable spaciousness within you.
The sky has no fear about the weather moving through it.
Not even the fiercest storm has ever disturbed the sky.
So these emotions that get stirred,
This anger that gets stirred in you,
What if you could hold it as the sky holds a storm?
Simply allow it to run its course and pass without engaging in an extra story.
Let yourself feel the sense of spaciousness now.
Taking one more slow inhale into the nose,
Exhaling it out,
Letting the body settle again,
Letting the mind soften,
But letting the light that you generated remain.
Bringing the awareness back to that place in the center of your chest and noticing if somewhere from deep inside you,
A sentence,
A series of words may be taking shape.
Maybe it's an insight,
A truth you need to anchor into right now,
A reminder,
A commitment,
An affirmation,
Or simply a little whisper of courage.
Allow that sentence to form and then emerge from your own intuition and imagination.
You don't have to say it out loud,
But allow it to articulate within and see if you can trust it.
Let's take another deep inhale and a soft exhale,
Committing to carry that sentence of insight with you into whatever comes next in your day.
Thanks for working directly with your anger,
Which is not an easy task.
Thanks for participating and practicing this exercise today.
From the center of my heart,
I'm sending you steadiness,
Clarity,
And courage.
And may any anger that enters your heart,
Body,
Or mind stream be transmuted into beautiful,
Clear illumination and clarity.
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