If You’re Angry, You’re Drinking Tainted Tea

Don’t let your past kill you

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Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die.

It’s a hard pill to swallow, but WE are the cause of most of our suffering. This is because we invite ourselves to relive experiences that leave us riding high on the intensity of survival emotions.

We do this by thinking of the situation every chance we get. We gripe about how we’ve been wronged, how unfair things are, blame the world for our lives being such a mess, and complain about how we feel like crap and nothing is going our way. We end up being triggered, deeply feeling into the hurt, anger, guilt, shame, blame, fear, or other emotion that’s eating away at us from the inside out.

This is what causes the energy to stay with us, causing us pain.

Constantly revisiting a memory and therefore reliving a situation, calling up the emotion every time, creates a neurological association binding the emotion to the memory, and if left unrecognized becomes an unconscious autopilot reaction.

That’s right. You’ve just conditioned yourself like Pavlov’s Dogs.

Now your body calls up that emotion every time you get triggered. Just a sheer thought can cause an upset, sending you into a spiral.