Anger is a very misunderstood emotion.  For very many people, the one emotion they have the most problems with is anger. The thing is just like chilis, there are lots of types of anger. Some anger is volatile and liable to break things: words, emotions even people.

There is slow boiling anger, like hot lava from a volcano. There is the anger that comes like a sudden storm and destroys whatever is in its path.

Then there is anger like acid rain, that slowly drop by drop eats away at us.

I’m sure you can come up with different anger types on your own.

The thing to remember about anger we are usually angry at something, because of something.

Think about it for a moment. Think back to when you were last angry. Weren’t you angry at a situation, person, perhaps yourself or another, an event? Wasn’t the anger about a value or belief you had that was challenged or broken? Either trust, expectation, self-esteem or something like that?

If you look beneath the surface of that anger, beyond the surface reason you were angry, was there another person you were angry with? Very often it’s us. When we are angry at others we are often angry at ourselves too. For being such a fool, for trusting that person, for believing them, or for the injustice of the situation. Whatever it is.

Anger is a fantastic tool then- it allows us to clearly without any doubt see what we feel about ourselves. We then know exactly what to clear, what hot buttons to release, what we truly believe about the world.

So next time you get angry, bless it, since it is guiding you to deepen and expand yourself. But only if you take action and learn the lessons anger wants to teach you. If you run away, you’ll just end up doing it again.