Exercising anger out of the body

There are many occasions when we experience anger and can't express it to the person that triggered it in us. Or maybe we are angry at ourselves and don't know how to deal with this energy. Many people don't believe anger is an actual emotion and much more a bi-product of another (i.e. hurt, pain) but regardless, the energy of anger is VERY real and if left to fester in our bodies and minds, can lead to extreme toxicity.

Perhaps anger IS pointing to something deeper and it's important to acknowledge anger when we feel it because it can provide clues for something deeper going on. In suggesting we find a way to exercise it out of our bodies, I by no means suggest dismissing it or infer that it's a bad thing unto itself. I only think anger repressed is toxic because it's low vibrational dense energy that can make us sick in the long run if we DON'T deal with it.

One way to start releasing anger so that we can get to the deeper meaning behind it is to use movement to get it the fook out of our physical beings. By getting it out of our physical beings, we have a better opportunity to access our higher selves in dealing with the root cause of the anger. Staying stuck in anger can be the start of dis-ease.

Many alternative health practitioners believe that stuck, overly active, dense energy is the beginning of physical illness. Stuck energy can block the flow of healthy high vibrational energy, slow blood flow to an area and keep us from transcending an emotional or spiritual deficit.

So what to do?

Engage in Yang type exercise that releases the trapped energy.

This week, I had a client come in who didn't even know that her emotional disturbance that day was anger until we chatted for a few minutes. Then as I discovered that she was freakin' pissed about something that struck at the chord of her value system, I started getting her to do things that would challenge her to release the anger.

I got her throwing a 20lbs sandbag across the room, pounding the ground with heavy ropes, kneeing a stability ball, all done in quick succession. By the time we went through these exercises a few times, she was able to talk about why what happened was so hurtful to her.

After a calming fasical stretch, deep breathing, mysofascial release, she left laughing and lit up like the divine spirit she is.

So when you want to try releasing anger:
1) Choose big explosive exercises that use your whole body and make you want to grunt to get 'em done.
2) Put your all into what you're doing (safely) by not holding back effort.
3) If you're a runner pound the ground by doing some hard core sprints to get the shit out.
4) Try throwing something heavy (not at anyone of course) and yell if you need to while you do it. This can provide a cathartic release.

Or come see me and I'll show you how to do it!