I sometimes seem to suffer from extreme anger, which I have a hard time of letting go, so I pray or Meditate. This time I prayed on it. Very soon afterwards, something happened from outside myself to appease it. Thank you God. I think God responds very quickly when one prays for the right thing. If God isn't responding to your prayer, you may be praying for the wrong outcome. God won't answer a prayer that isn't in the person's best interest to do so.
The following is a meditation from the book "Metaphysical Meditations by Paramahansa Yogananda (a Yogi) on anger that I read once in a while in attempting self-help.
I make up my mind never more to wear anger on my face. I will not inject the poison of anger in the heart of my peace and thus kill my spiritual life.
I will be angry only with anger and with nothing else. I cannot be angry with anyone because the good and the bad both are divine brethren, born of my one divine Father.
I will calm the wrath of others by the good example of my tranquility, especially when I see my brothers suffering from the delirium of anger.
Teach me not to kindle anger and thus devastate with the conflagration of wrath the green oasis of peace within me and in others. Teach me rather to extinguish anger with the torrents of my unceasing love.
Heavenly Father, command the lake of my kindness ever to remain undisturbed by the storms of misery-making anger.
Good and Bad Anger
I have to question some of the above. It seems to me, to feel anger when you see ISIS people cutting off heads is maybe even healthy. If one sees something like that and doesn't feel any anger, it doesn't seem normal. But in a way I can understand, how when a person sees something like that, they just want to cry, which is how I'm feeling right now. Doing something like cutting off a person's head accomplishes nothing but increases anger in other people and then that anger comes back to you, ad infinitum.
In the Bible Jesus got angry at the money lenders and God seems to be angry much of the time. The men who wrote the Bible sure seem to approve of anger. (I think the Bible was written by very spiritual men, not by God.) I deduce from this that there is good and bad anger. It's okay to be angry at evil. In the above quoted meditation, I take exception to the phrase: "I cannot be angry with anyone because the good and the bad both are divine brethren, born of my one divine Father." Does that mean what makes men cut off other people's heads come from God, too? I find that hard to believe. I think current religious thinking doesn't believe anything bad or wrong comes from God. Also, doesn't the Bible's instruction "Turn the other cheek," contradict being angry. It seems to me the only way to avoid the buildup of anger, is not to get angry in the first place. Something that takes total understanding and/or prayer.
Update: 4/9/15
For the first time in my life, I watched a little of Sesame Street on TV and got the best advice for getting rid of anger. When you are having a bad thought or feeling, breath in then breath out and let it go.
The following is a meditation from the book "Metaphysical Meditations by Paramahansa Yogananda (a Yogi) on anger that I read once in a while in attempting self-help.
Overcoming Anger
I make up my mind never more to wear anger on my face. I will not inject the poison of anger in the heart of my peace and thus kill my spiritual life.
I will be angry only with anger and with nothing else. I cannot be angry with anyone because the good and the bad both are divine brethren, born of my one divine Father.
I will calm the wrath of others by the good example of my tranquility, especially when I see my brothers suffering from the delirium of anger.
Teach me not to kindle anger and thus devastate with the conflagration of wrath the green oasis of peace within me and in others. Teach me rather to extinguish anger with the torrents of my unceasing love.
Heavenly Father, command the lake of my kindness ever to remain undisturbed by the storms of misery-making anger.
Good and Bad Anger
I have to question some of the above. It seems to me, to feel anger when you see ISIS people cutting off heads is maybe even healthy. If one sees something like that and doesn't feel any anger, it doesn't seem normal. But in a way I can understand, how when a person sees something like that, they just want to cry, which is how I'm feeling right now. Doing something like cutting off a person's head accomplishes nothing but increases anger in other people and then that anger comes back to you, ad infinitum.
In the Bible Jesus got angry at the money lenders and God seems to be angry much of the time. The men who wrote the Bible sure seem to approve of anger. (I think the Bible was written by very spiritual men, not by God.) I deduce from this that there is good and bad anger. It's okay to be angry at evil. In the above quoted meditation, I take exception to the phrase: "I cannot be angry with anyone because the good and the bad both are divine brethren, born of my one divine Father." Does that mean what makes men cut off other people's heads come from God, too? I find that hard to believe. I think current religious thinking doesn't believe anything bad or wrong comes from God. Also, doesn't the Bible's instruction "Turn the other cheek," contradict being angry. It seems to me the only way to avoid the buildup of anger, is not to get angry in the first place. Something that takes total understanding and/or prayer.
Update: 4/9/15
For the first time in my life, I watched a little of Sesame Street on TV and got the best advice for getting rid of anger. When you are having a bad thought or feeling, breath in then breath out and let it go.
