A Resonant Life

Anger is a powerful emotion that can lay wasted to what is positive in our lives. Despite that anger is something we all experience -- maybe more frequently than we'd like to admit. There are ways to use our experiences of anger to become positive, productive people who create a more positivity around us and a more positive, peaceful and just world.

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In our fractured and polarized world in which we all can't even agree on what is fact and what is true, how do we find the way to be of help and hold true to our intention of being altruistic without distinction or condition? How do we hold true to our project of uncovering our authentic selves and creating a world of peace?

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Feeling grief and loss when we lose loved or revered ones is all part of a process. But it is one that can overwhelm us and bring us to a halt in terms of spiritual progress and being available to others. With intentionality though, we can use grief and loss though as energy to help us deepen our empathy to help others. And we deepen our wisdom of impermanence.

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In our lives, no matter how hard we try otherwise, we still sometimes hurt others with words, negative thoughts or selfish actions. These can accumulate and drag us down into negativity. Instead, we can recognize these mistakes and use them as catalysts to own what we did, make amends and as a result find ourselves happier, kinder more generous people.

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Sometimes we discover insight and opportunity from the least likely people, places and situations. Being open and aware allows us to discover and share a sense of grace as well as find the intersection where our authentic selves can bring more peace and happiness to every situation. 

Our world is full of people and situations that cause outrage and anger causing us to scream into the void - or shout at our TVs or send nasty online messages. But we can use that which outrages us as gateway to becoming happy joyful people that create peace around them. We are not our emotions, but we can use our emotions to foster joy.

The Equinox - or seasonal divide - gives us an opportunity to reflect and look at who we are and how we became the people we are. At this time, it is a great practice to share our blessings and wishes for peace with others - including those who have gone before yet played a role in making us who we are.

When life seems to be a slog with a too heavy backpack, practicing and focusing on being resilient and looking around at how we can help others increases our spiritual strength and capacity to not only go on, but do so helping others and with a more abiding happiness in our lives.

Consciously making efforts to become a help for others in all of our thoughts, intentions and actions changes us from within, freeing us from a "cosmic rut. " This frees us to experience sustained happiness in our lives while still succeeding in life and becoming a person others miss.

An experience with a friend showed me how I was being judgmental - and accepting the criticism I was able to see the arrogance for what it is -- confidence without humility. This episode is my journey to getting back on track.