Primal Rage

[Christine]

This was posted on Facebook by a very dear wonderful friend and I want to share it here for I too have walked through the flames and found it to be true.

"This is just my own reasoning, but I think there are two types of anger: a primal anger, and then a secondary (artificial) anger. The primal anger is the original authentic reaction, the legitimate anger that we were supposed to feel, but always suppressed. Because we suppressed that, it led to us reacting instead in a different way, an inauthentic way, while the original reaction was held back. This inauthentic reaction leads to new inauthentic reactions, and so on, until you develop a completely inauthentic behavior (anger could result also - but a secondary/artificial type, if that makes sense).

Basically, somewhere deep inside, there's an original, authentic version of us, that has been lying dormant its whole life in the background, waiting for us to give it a voice, a chance to be, to live, to express, to experience. Well, in many of us it's not even waiting anymore, it's given up, overwhelmed by despair and loneliness. All the while, there is an impostor version of us that is taking over, and replacing the original self, from a place of survival, rather than from a place of health and abundance and safety. Instead of being just humans before anything else, we are instead warriors and survivors from an early age....so by retracing our true feelings, our true expressions, our true original reactions, what they were before we suppressed them, and really sitting with them, processing them, we can get in touch with the authentic self for the first time....give it a voice, an invitation to start living life....and you discover who you would've been had the world not pushed you to become somebody who you are not.

So I think for me, it's a matter of differentiating between that primal anger and the secondary types of anger..."