You might wish to consider the idea that there is no such thing as "anger" and only FEAR obstructs the direction your contemplative practices will naturally take you. "The path from suffering is to abandon" FEAR. Striving results from fear since incompletion is fearful and demands that you strive for what you believe you lack. Anger is merely symptomatic of fear. Fear is the disease that ails us.
I believe that if you closely analyze all the names we apply to varying states of "negative emotion" you may find that these are merely symptoms of none other than fear and to alleviate the symptoms one must cure the disease.
Intrinsic fear (in all its varying levels) can only be experienced as a mind-in-conflict and therefore, is an impediment to the peace that any contemplative practice requires in order to fully evolve to fruition. Therefore, to my mind, the only approach is to ask "what could I possibly fear in this moment that obstructs my natural state of peace."
The answer will come to the truly honest and persistent questioner and thus in the recognition of the origin of fear, one's perspective and state of mind can be altered to allow fear to dissipate and peace to be resumed thus, absolving conflict and continuing a more effective contemplative practice.
However, this approach requires a BELIEF that peace and joy are one's natural state, or God-given inheritance. Therefore, the process of reinforcing that natural state is part of the contemplative process, which can only evolve through an ever increasing absence of fear.
Peace Angels,
mike S
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