Anger: Dark Night Of The Soul

In Anger: Dark Night of the Soul, following our brief opening practice, we learn that anger is a powerful emotion that can trap us in its distortions of rage and hatred. But we can create safe ways to express it before it builds up. Then in the present moment with new clarity and energy, we can invite healing. Includes the teaching story ‘Ripping up phone books.’ We close with the spiritual practice “Releasing Anger.”

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The idea of placing my mind on a sacred object is not new to me, but placing my anger outside of myself is! Thank you!

Thank you. I look forward to learning to this again with the gathered materials so I can complete the spiritual practice. 🙏🏾

That was excellent. I became ill for a very long time due to keeping my emotions bottled up.

Thank you. This was very helpful

Brilliant! I SIT💜
I woke a new person this morning at 4 am and I still sit 15 hours later in lesson # 2, grief..I feel peace for the very first time in 58 years! I feel light as air. I thought if I let in the real feelings they would kill me. I'm not scared, it's all gone. I don't know how to explain it, it's just gone. I'm excited. I have a purpose. I have a reason.I can't believe this. I woke up, you woke me up this morning thank you!! and I was not asleep. The bondage is gone. The anger followed suit as did the guilt, shame.... all of the trauma since birth, it's just gone!! it's gone!! This is absolutely unbelievable, my brain is saying you better watch out it's going to be taken away from you, you are not allowed to feel good , don't deserve it,don't get too comfortable because I'm going to take it away! And all I have to do is sit. If ever ,and it will, the feelings come up that I'm not worthy to even breathe the air on this planet I will sit. I rebuke the notion that I am not a child of this universe. I refuse to continue to believe the lies of my mind because my heart and soul stayed intact and was woken this morning at 4:00 a.m. thank you It is an absolute miracle! I sent a private, very personal message to you Jacob as I have been alone in total isolation since April 2020. I don't know how I made it and I don't have to question it that's the amazing part I can sit with it! I was at a crossroad and that's where I met you thank you 🙏thank you🙏 thank you 💜🙏

Great exercise at end to release you're anger, I'm going to try it! Thank you

Wow. I imagined myself doing the exercise he suggests, as he explained it. I feel better already. So i can only imagine how good i'll feel when i do it in real time. Exciting.

Wow this is truly revolutionary and was so needed for me. So many ppl are terrified of any form of anger whatsoever and they avoid and repress it altogether. As a very passionate, sensitive and emotional person driven by social justice aims, anger and other strong emotions often animate me and my work and this talk helped me understand why it is so destructive when I get told to “just calm down” !! Thank you so much Jacob🙏🏼

💖oh my gosh, Jacob, thank you for this💖

Jacob,
Thank you - for teaching me about the liberating method of externalizing. 🙏

Thank you so much for this refreshing approach to anger. So many people, including clinicians, invalidate anger as if there is something wrong with you for feeling and needing to express it. I used to go throw rocks as hard as I could into a lake when I was a teen and often I would scream while I did it. I desperately needed that catharsis then but rarely have or allow myself the time for it now. Maybe I will try to do this telephone book exercise this week since I’ve been feeling it build up the past several days and become toxic.

Thank you!!!!!! I think MANY professionals (therapists etc) do not teach how to express anger in a healthy way. We are all taught to suppress it. Thank you for this talk in honoring anger and teaching how to move this emotion through us in a healthy way.

Thank you for this innovative way of dealing with anger.

Thank you. This has been very helpful. Will do sometime.

Interesting! Thank you