There is an entire self-help industry and a multitude of spiritual programs and techniques designed to help you “get rid” of your anger. They are all based on the faulty premise that you can escape what is. You cannot escape what is. That is impossible. If anger is arising, that is what is arising. Any movement to escape it or get rid of it is a denial of what is arising. It is resistance. When you resist what is happening, you merely strengthen it.

Instead of seeking to get rid of anger, simply notice it. Notice that it arises in a space of non-dual awareness. That space is who you are. The anger is merely a temporary energy movement arising and falling in that space.

Notice the mental stories that feed the anger and the strategies the mind uses to escape it. Let those stories and strategies come and go naturally and effortlessly in the space. This non-dual awareness has no agenda to escape or resist the anger. Spacious awareness is simply present to the anger, exactly as it is.

When there is no longer resistance to anger, it is no longer being fed. It disappears back into awareness. Stated another way, nothing appears as everything. So, in this case, nothing (awareness) appears as something (anger) and will effortlessly die back into awareness (nothing) if it is not resisted.

From: Reflections of the One Life, by Scott Kiloby www.kiloby.com

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