Day 14 Anger as Positive Reinforcement
Something I notice from the recent years in Trump being president and the liberal left and conservative right is the amount of anger there is on both sides. What is interesting to observe is how people believe that Anger is a sign of caring. Because Trump is Visually angry people believe he really cares about America. On the left side, with Bernie Sanders, he too was outraged and people believed because he was so upset he must care.
In my observation of everyday life, people who are angry about things are deemed as people who care about things. In all truth though this can just be a ruse or trick. Being angry doesn't necessarily mean you care, however because of what people believe, this becomes what people see to be a sign of of caring.
If you are deceived by someone who pretends to be angry, its your responsibility for believing that anger means people care. It doesn't mean anything.
Anger itself feels good. It is self-rewarding and so self-reinforcing. It becomes an addiction. I notice this as well, that anger feels self-empowering, and if you don't have anything else good in your life you particularly focus in on anger, and blame. Without stopping oneself one expresses/lives anger as feeling as energy more and more.
What I notice how suppression works here is that suppression makes you think and feel that anger is something bad to feel. That is suppression. That is different than actually stopping anger and so feeling nothing. Suppression just makes you feel bad when feeling angry, so it just adds another layer of judgment and separation.
The way that anger works, because it feels good and it is self-reinforcing, this is how and why angry mobs form so easily, and how people can get swept up in anger so easily. Anger makes you feel empower, or like you have power. It gives you a high. It makes you feel better. Being honest how anger actually feels is how you can start stopping it. This is what I have been applying in my life.
Through self-forgiveness one takes self-responsibility for what one feels.
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In my observation of everyday life, people who are angry about things are deemed as people who care about things. In all truth though this can just be a ruse or trick. Being angry doesn't necessarily mean you care, however because of what people believe, this becomes what people see to be a sign of of caring.
If you are deceived by someone who pretends to be angry, its your responsibility for believing that anger means people care. It doesn't mean anything.
Anger itself feels good. It is self-rewarding and so self-reinforcing. It becomes an addiction. I notice this as well, that anger feels self-empowering, and if you don't have anything else good in your life you particularly focus in on anger, and blame. Without stopping oneself one expresses/lives anger as feeling as energy more and more.
What I notice how suppression works here is that suppression makes you think and feel that anger is something bad to feel. That is suppression. That is different than actually stopping anger and so feeling nothing. Suppression just makes you feel bad when feeling angry, so it just adds another layer of judgment and separation.
The way that anger works, because it feels good and it is self-reinforcing, this is how and why angry mobs form so easily, and how people can get swept up in anger so easily. Anger makes you feel empower, or like you have power. It gives you a high. It makes you feel better. Being honest how anger actually feels is how you can start stopping it. This is what I have been applying in my life.
Through self-forgiveness one takes self-responsibility for what one feels.
Visit Desteni.org to learn more!
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