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Think it over

Let’s explore anger

Sumit Bajoria

Abstract
Through surrender, simple steps can be taken to learn to live from moment to moment. This will empower us
to handle our anger in a much better way and make our life a celebration.

Anger is an expression of non-acceptance to get better. On the contrary, it adds more
or resistance towards What was or What is or misery to the situation.
What Will Be.
Let’s go further and deeper to analyse how we
Let’s go deeper and ask ourselves: can change the conditioning of our reactions
although these patterns may have been in us
• Do we have any control over what was by for many years.
getting angry?
• Do we have any control over what is by The first step is to catch ourselves when we
getting angry? are angry instead of labelling ourselves as
• Do we have any control over what will be bad because we know we shouldn’t get
by getting angry? angry. Just be aware of the fact that we
are angry and accept unconditionally our
To me, the answer is No to all three questions. state of being at that moment and, once this
Then why am I getting angry? acceptance is established, there will be a shift
in our consciousness, and with this shift of
Because there is a habitual pattern in our consciousness we can analyse what angered
conditioning over the years which makes us.
us believe that by getting angry we are
safeguarding ourselves. In fact our ego becomes If it was something to do with the past, we
stronger as it feeds on this anger. Our basic can simply tell ourselves that the past is over
conditioning doesn’t allow us to respond and that it doesn’t have any power over us
to our life-situations. Anger is one form of at the present moment unless we give the
reaction which doesn’t allow the situation past permission to overpower our present.

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