Anger is one of the more powerful emotions and used destructively, it can be found at the uncontrolled heart of domestic and many other forms of violence. It can also be the most powerful and constructive emotion when harnessed and channelled to creative use.
Yet what are emotions? Where do they come from? What use are they.
In my own researches I came to the conclusion that emotions were the first language of the quantum based under-pinnings of the formation of the universe and of all minds.
If this is so then long before linear word thoughts emerged there were emotive thoughts. Long before biological life as we know it began, energy was moving the universe with incredible forces, from big bangs to tiny quantum particle happenings, from the coalescing of interstellar dust clouds to the formation of the incredible heart energy of a star or an atom.
Were those forces felt and if so what was feeling them? If something was feeling them, what was that before biological life began?
These are the questions at the heart of both religions and sciences. Questions that are still relevant in our everyday lives: for what is anger but an emotive explosion within our minds, our beings, our souls, which either controls us and ruins our lives, or controlled by us, builds them to extraordinary heights?
Assuming that some primal force caused those first enormous forces of the big bang, what could it be and, unknown and unknowable, what could we call it other than the name we have given it: spirit? Would spirit at that point be God whom we are told is a ‘jealous’ being – another emotion - or would it be any kind of ‘mind’ that is surely an intricate matrix of energy and acquired knowledge, whose language varies, as does ours, from emotions to linear words and cohesive thoughts?
My own view is that mind could not exist at the beginning point of a universe, unless it was a product of a previous universe, which collapsing back to an incredibly small ‘black hole’, began again with the birth of a new universe.
This, amazing at it may seem, is the latest scientific belief stemming from the incredible many dimensional mathematics of both ‘String’ and ‘M’ Theories. It is known as the ‘bounce theory’.
It says that each universe as it comes to its logical end is merely the beginning of a new universe, a new cycle within a megaverse of possibly infinite numbers of universes.
If this is so, then the cycling of our own minds from one life to another next does not seem so far-fetched either.
But where does anger come into all of this.
Everything evolves from the simple to the complex. We begin with a small idea and through work and application evolve it to a large one that could change the world. In the process we move through many emotions, not least of which is anger.
People challenge our ideas and we get angry at the fact they cannot see the startling and often beautiful simplicity or complexity of what we see. That anger can cause us to change our entire direction, can cause us to doubt our insights and so abandon the fledgling thread of thought we had. Or feeling that anger and realizing it to be what it is; this energy of our explosive emotion can be channelled into new lines of thought that produce new arguments in support of our contentions.
Anger has been both the destruction and the Savior of my life.
Often in my youth I flared up under its control and losing my equilibrium threw away whatever hope I had of turning the situation I was faced with to my advantage. (I once, at the tender age of fifteen, served twenty one days in a youth detention centre, for one such indignant explosion in front of a far from understanding magistrate.)
So what is an emotion?
Microbiologists know that the brain sends out molecular messengers though the blood stream as a result of explosions or excitations caused by external events or internal thoughts. Those explosions or excitation can be almost instant. Caused by fear for instance the brain sends electric pulses to the organs to produce adrenaline, which causes the heart to beat faster and fresh energy to our muscles that allows us to react at speeds and strengths that might save the day for us. We feel the resultant process as a whole cocktail of emotions that move from fear to anger, hope and many others before we feel relief at our continued survival.
Before we evolved eyes to see there were emotions to be felt as both destructive and creative energies evolved through universe-wide expressions of energy and power.
Before we had evolved ears to hear or noses to catch scents or tongues to taste: emotions existed to sense those energies in the fledgling quantum minds of interstellar dust clouds and the hearts of evolving stars.
Now, within us, those same emotions work in the mind and body healing processes known to a relatively new science called the Microbiology of Mind-Body Healing.
Understanding that anger is just a part of a mind/body process we can learn to control and channel it, to create enormous advantages in our lives.
A retired hypnotherapist and lecturer, Tom Leigh is a graduate of the University of Metaphysical Sciences with a Masters degree. He is currently continuing his studies while writing a thesis for his doctorate. He loves sailing and owns a yacht that is two years older than himself, a classic cutter called Cloche d'Or, which means 'The Golden Bell'. It was built in 1939 in Holland. The Rhiannon Blade: http://www.psi-aware.com
