Fear is built into us to allow us to react to dangerous situations, just like in other animals. It is known scientifically as the “Fight or Flight” response. Fear, like anger, is an emotion, and isn’t in and of itself a wrong emotion, but it frequently leads to anger. Anger is the result because the secondary reaction to fear is anger. When people and things frustrate our personal goals, anger results.
The way you process information is dependent on differing factors such as past experiences, upbringing, etc. Therefore our reaction is learned, not inherited. We learned to be angry. Emotions are simply responding to our thoughts. They are going to happen automatically to whatever we are thinking about. If we are thinking angry thoughts, we are going to be angry. Therefore, if we want to manage our anger, we are going to have to learn how to manage our thinking. We are going to have to modify our way of reacting to situations.
Anger can erupt at any moment, and it’s not always directed at a person. Sometimes we get angry at circumstances. We’re frustrated because we believe we’re about to lose something we thought was secure. Or we realize we may not gain something we expected. What usually makes us angry is our lack of control over people and circumstances. Rock-Medicine offers two valuable tools for use in balancing our emotions. Petrified wood is for stress and opal is for elimination of fear of our Divine purpose.
In 1933 when Franklin D Roosevelt was giving his Inaugural speech he was addressing a nation already suffering in the Great Depression. His statement was: “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
We may take these words today and look at the glut of global tragedy and instability assaulting our senses daily. From the oil spill off the Gulf Coast to violence and warfare to poverty and starvation it is clear that there are seemingly limitless catalysts for fear and thus, anger. Blocked goals are the most common causes of anger. Fear reveals our attitude toward personal loss. The greater the loss, the greater the fear. Worry, a form of fear, is preoccupation with the possibility that we can lose something valuable. Prolonged fear breeds pessimism. Anger breeds optimism but it does not come with logic or sanity. As the world struggles with depleting resources and political manipulation of the masses, we find many venting their fears in aggressive anger.
Many times anger is disgust at our own ineptitude. We need to determine why we’re angry. To deal with anger we must come to grips with the fact that we are not all-powerful. Use this unique time that we live in to be the change you want to see in the world. Take positive action to overcome your fears. Although fear paralyzes, anger imprisons. We must, as a species, move our thoughts, words and deeds to that of problem solving if we are to survive. Once a problem is identified, and a solution formulated the strategy to implement the solution is all that separates us from victory over our fears and thus, our anger. Do not be afraid to ACT!
We must find ways to be unafraid. We must begin to pull together and eliminate those things which divide us as a people in order to begin the cooperation that will build safety, stability and sustainability for future generations. Without this, without conquering our fears and thus, our anger, we are truly doomed. That is what we should fear, if anything. Find your true strength…be unafraid!
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