Anger is a form of energy. Before we act anger out and before we suppress it, anger is a free flowing energetic formation. This natural energy arises when our integrity or the integrity of other people or situations are threatened. The energy of anger is a sharp clarity of mind that sees the threatening situation precisely, and it knows what to do in response.

For example if your partner is repeatedly mean you, you know exactly how to deal with it. You make it clear to them that this kind of behavior is not acceptable in your relationship. You are strong and your response is completely appropriate to the situation. In this case, you have expressed the energy of anger freely so it does its job of clarifying your boundaries.

However, us humans have a habit of shutting down the vivid energies of life, and we aren’t accustomed to relaxing with and staying open to the energy of anger. This is a deep rooted mental and psychological tendency based in fear and misunderstanding.

Instead of expressing this natural energy, we tighten up and freeze the clarity of anger into a rigid form of self preservation. The clarity is lost and instead of a flexible and intelligent response, we are left with a hard shell of protection, the blunt form of protection known as anger.

The good news is that the clarity of anger is always available, no matter how hard we tighten and shut down. At any stage along the way, regardless of how hardened with anger we may feel ourselves to be, no matter how restricted our behavior has become, we can always learn to relax and allow the natural intelligence of anger to do its thing.

This understanding of anger comes from the Buddhist meditation traditions and various other world wisdom traditions. However there is nothing mystical or spiritual about it. Various modern psychological models and anger management methods have a similar understand of anger even though they may use different language to express it.

The purpose of this website is to help us make a transformative journey. Transformation isn’t so radical as it may sound. It’s simply a process of letting go of the extra stuff. We need to unlearn some harmful mental habits that have been keeping us stuck. The energy of anger is a natural and necessary part of being human, a normal part of our psychological make up, so we only need change our relationship to it. We just need to get out of the way and let this energy be as it is.

By learning to release our tight grip on the energy of anger, we allow it to fulfill it’s natural protective and clarifying functions. This kind of anger management is a matter of letting go, rather than really doing anything. In this way we can begin to release ourselves into a more fulfilling way of being.

By Craig Mollins