#eclipsemessage

My entire life and even just a few years ago, if someone were to ask me, i would have never identified with the emotions of anger or rage, i would say ‘oh i just don’t get angry’ and i really believed that. It had been repressed and suppressed under so many layers of conditioning; we live in a world where repressing emotions are celebrated. all of the times i repressed my anger or rage, i was met with the celebrations of ‘wow you are so mature, you handled that so well.’ and so it further conditioned me to equate repressing those emotions with praise, and ultimately LOVE. I saw so many unsafe expressions of anger my entire life that i didn’t know there was an ability or possibility for me to have a safe and healthy expression of it and i was afraid of it. but anger is a beautiful emotion on the spectrum of human emotion; it was not that i didn’t angry, it was that i was paralyzed in being able to actually get in touch with my anger. All i ever saw was anger and rage DESTROY, i never got to see it in its native form of PROTECTING. Anger exists to protect us; so how can we honor it and instead of pushing it away or avoiding it, can we instead stand powerfully within it? Most of us have never been taught to stand powerfully within it. We’ve been taught to project it outwards. we yell, we fight, we blame, we cause destruction to the world directly around us. OR we turn it all inwards and we stuff it down down down to fester. neither of these expressions of anger allow us to stand in our power of the alchemy of the anger. Holding ourselves in ceremony - allowing ourselves to be in the body with the big fiery emotions of anger and rage; through dance, through movement, through shakes, through cries & screams allows us to alchemize the power of those emotions and deepen the power that is us.