Moving Through The Emotion Of Anger - Movement & Meditation

Let's take this time to deal with our emotions.

Sometimes we feel such strong emotions towards a person or an event and we're unsure what to do with these emotions,

How to process them,

What to do with them,

How to deal with them.

This meditation will use movement and visualization so please make sure you have some space around you to move.

Stand up now and move your body.

Move your hips in a figure eight pattern.

Keep your knees soft and let your arms sway with the movement.

Springtime,

A time of new beginnings.

It may not be springtime now but we can look to the energies of spring to understand the emotion of anger.

Spring's energy is unstoppable,

Insistent,

Assertive.

The emotion is anger.

Misdirected anger can turn into hatred,

Inflexibility.

Yet anger can be righteous,

Confident and assertive.

Now imagine a sideways figure eight pattern on the wall in front of you and begin to sway your arms in that pattern,

Tracing the imaginary figure eight out in front of you.

Now trace the figure eight on the floor out in front of you up towards the ceiling.

Trace figure eights all around you for a minute.

When we hold our emotions they can manifest in the body as dis-ease.

Anger can show up as inflammation such as arthritis in the hands.

So really move your arms in your body and figure eight patterns.

Anger can cause issues in the liver if directed toward the self.

Move your body.

Now slow down that movement.

Slow it down.

Keep your knees soft and let your hands rest on your thighs.

Take a deep breath in and let it out.

Cross your right leg over your left and then cross your arms by placing the right hand on your left shoulder and the left hand on your right shoulder.

Take a few deep breaths here as you inhale lift your chest,

Expand the breath into the lungs.

Exhale forcefully.

Inhale again.

Lift the chest.

Exhale forcefully.

One more time.

Let it out.

Now cross your legs the other way,

Left one over the right and crisscross your arms the other way holding your opposite shoulders with the opposite hands.

Take a deep breath in.

Let it out.

Two more times.

Deep breath in.

Lift the chest and let it out.

Good.

One more time and let it out.

Good.

Now slide your fingertips to your collarbones and just rub the collarbones.

You can tap if you want.

You can begin to unhook your legs just standing with your feet about hip width apart.

Good.

And release your arms.

Shake your hands out.

With your knees soft begin to just soften the gaze.

Now march on the spot and think of the reason why you're harbouring such anger and let it surface.

So marching on the spot and then tapping your leg with the opposite hand.

So when you lift your left leg tap your knee with your right hand and when you lift your right knee tap it with your left hand.

Marching on the spot creating this crossover pattern tapping as you march.

So noticing where anger resides in your body and if you don't know where it resides just hear or see the word anger or angry.

Marching on the spot and now stop marching.

Shake your hands out.

Soften the knees and place your hands on your thighs.

Breathe in and breathe out forcefully.

Breathe in again and now when you exhale make an SH sound.

Think of the word anger or why you are angry and begin to feel it in your body.

You can imagine that you're bringing this anger into your palms and as you inhale swing your arms up overhead facing your palms towards you and make tight fists above your head.

Now as you exhale imagine throwing that anger into the ground as you swing your arms forcefully down.

Throw that anger out as you make the SH sound again.

Good let's do that a few more times.

Hands on the thighs.

Bring that feeling to the surface let it siphon into your palms and as you begin to raise your arms up overhead make fists with your hands and forcefully out with an SH.

Two more times.

Inhaling bringing the fists up and letting it out.

Throw it into the ground.

Now this one is soft.

Bring the arms up.

Keep your fists up above your head and now just flick it down into the earth below you.

Throw your anger out.

Good shake your hands off.

Now you can sit and we'll go into our meditation.

Sitting or lying in your favorite meditative posture,

Touch your index finger to the tip of the thumb and place the tip of the index finger in thumb on your temples letting the other three fingers rest on your forehead.

Breathe in here through the nose.

Breathe out through the mouth.

In through the nose and out through the mouth.

Breathe deeply.

Good now begin to relax the body.

Close your eyes if they're not already closed.

Just allow your arms to rest either on your lap or by your side.

Breathe slowly.

Let the breath slow down.

Drop your chin towards your chest and see the darkness behind your closed eyelids.

Darkness like winter.

Winter is a time of darkness where we go inward and reflect.

See darkness.

In that darkness a seed is planted.

See a seed beneath the earth buried deep beneath the soil.

The sun begins to shine and the seed begins to feel the warmth of the Sun.

Feel your body getting warmer.

Cultivate the feeling of warmth in your body.

It's springtime now.

Time for new things to be born.

Time for darkness to turn to light.

With your eyes still closed,

Lift your chin slightly and begin to see the quality of light behind your eyelids.

The seed is beginning to push through the earth with force.

Its energy accumulating under the soil all winter.

The seed explodes through the earth through the soil and above the ground to meet the Sun with ferocity bursting through.

Now watch as the seedling grows unfurling with such beauty and grace.

The seedling is now blooming into a beautiful flower with vibrant colors.

See the flower.

See the color.

This flower bends and sways in the breeze sending its scent,

Pollen and little seedlings out into the wind atop the soft breeze.

Under all that energy,

All that anger is the desire to feel love.

Feel that love now.

Feel it deep within your heart.

See that love in your heart spreading out toward the person,

The place or the thing that triggered anger in you.

See this love as the fragrance of the flower or the pollen or the seedlings that needed the energy of anger,

The ferocity to be born.

Send it out now,

All that love that you feel.

For under the emotion of anger is our desire to feel love,

To be loved.

Lift your chin by tipping the top of the ears back and opening the throat.

Now repeat these words.

I love myself when I'm feeling anger.

I love myself when I'm feeling anger.

I love myself when I'm feeling anger.

I love myself when I'm feeling anger.

I love myself when I'm feeling anger.

Take a deep breath in.

Let the breath out.

Now repeat these words to yourself.

I forgive all of those who trigger anger in me.

I forgive all of those who trigger anger in me.

I forgive all of those who trigger anger in me.

I forgive all of those who trigger anger in me.

Good.

Now take a deep breath in.

Let it out.

And now repeat these words.

Oh great spirit,

I ask that you release this energetic charge of anger from my field now.

I am free.

Repeat these words.

I am free.

Take a deep breath in.

Let it out.

Take closed eyelids.

Look down at your chin and off to the left.

And now blink the eyes open slowly and repeat I am free.

I am free.

Can begin to give these words more voice saying them whispering them I am free I am free I am free I am free I am free and now take a long deep breath in through the nose let it out one more time like that deep breath in through the nose and let it out may you be free follow the anger inside you may you turn that anger into love bring it out into the world for the better good of humankind thank you for joining me namaste