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How to Deal With Anger and Other Strong Vital Reactions · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There is an idea prevalent in some aspects of Western
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  psychology, both mainstream and pop psychology that it is
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  unhealthy to internalized and hold in strong reactions or
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  emotions. Such as anger, they counseled
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  letting it out and thereby saving oneself from the
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  psychological and physical effects of suppressed, anger.
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  And other strong emotions. They're even groups that Support
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  the idea of scream therapy as a way to express, one's inner
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  rage. Clearly, there is an issue if
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  one is bottling up such strong feelings and suppressing them as
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  this, can indeed have never negative impacts mentally
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  emotionally and physically. The question, however, is
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  whether such an Unleashed expression as is recommended
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  actually does anything to diffuse or resolve the
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  underlying cause. Or in fact, if such expression
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  simply The repeated experience much more likely.
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  When we understand the impact of where we focus attention on what
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  forces arise within us, and as we learn more about the holes
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  that can be created in our protective, vital sheath or
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  energetic envelope. It becomes clear that giving
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  vent to the anger or other strong feelings simply creates
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  and reinforces a path for that Force to establish itself in the
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  being, on an ongoing basis. SRI aurobindo goes to the root
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  of the issue and his treatment of anger.
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  The goal is not to accept the anger within oneself and
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  suppress it, but to understand the pathway of entry and find
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  ways to deny it access to one's being.
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  This can be done with a systematic and disciplined
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  approach to one's inner psychological, Viewpoint and
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  response. SRI aurobindo writes, quote.
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  I think you have always had an idea that to give expression to
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  an Impulse or a movement is the best way.
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  We're even the only way to get rid of it, but that is a
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  mistaken idea. If you give expression to anger,
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  you prolong or confirm the habit of the recurrence of anger, you
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  do not diminish or get rid of the habit.
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  The very first step towards weakening the power of anger in
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  the nature and afterwards, getting rid of it.
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  All together is to refuse all expression to it, enact or
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  speech afterwards. One can go on with more
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  likelihood of success, to throw it out from the thought and
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  feeling also. And so with all other wrong
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  movements, all these movements come from outside from the
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  universal lower nature. where are suggested or thrown upon you
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  by adverse horses, adverse to your spiritual progress, Your
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  method of taking them as your own is again, a wrong method for
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  by doing that, you increase their power to recur and take,
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  hold of you. If you take them as your own,
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  that gives them a kind of right to be there.
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  If you feel them as not your own, then they have no, right?
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  And the will can develop more power to send them away.
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  But you must always have and feel as yours is this will The
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  power to refuse, a sent to refuse admission to a wrong
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  movement, or if it comes in the power, to send it away without
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  expressing it. And quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo, and the mother living within the yoga approach to
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  psychological health and growth, disturbances of the vital anger
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