How to Break the Cycle of Anger

Barry describes anger, jealousy and self-doubt as recurring emotional forces that seek expression through thought. Once anger takes hold it runs through a cycle, subsiding only to return when another event triggers it. Breaking this pattern requires intelligence: recognising the movement at its beginning, seeing its wastefulness, and detaching without struggling against it or justifying it. He states – remain present with the pressure inside the body without allowing it to fuel thinking or revive the past. Where a situation calls for action, act and learn from the consequences. “It diminishes, and then it seems to disappear. But has it disappeared? Oh, no, everything is a cycle. Here it is down in the dark again, waiting to come up again.” “You have to be intelligent at the beginning of it and see that anger and all negative emotions are a useless waste of energy.” #BarryLong #Anger #SelfAwareness ~ Source: This extract comes from the 90-minute recording “Lighting the Darkness: Only Intelligence Can Destroy the Self: The Transformation from Psychic Suffering to Spiritual Intelligence.” It is the fourth of 18 recordings from a ten-day meeting held at Bond University, Australia, in May 2002. Recently digitised and remastered, the recording is now available through The Barry Long Archive. Full recording: https://www.barrylong.org/archive/ass... Complete meeting set (18 recordings, 41 hours): https://www.barrylong.org/archive/mee... ~ From the archive: 📃 Possessed by Emotion – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/art... – “All unhappiness is a possession by some negative emotion that has no body.” 📃 At Least Give Your Smile – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/art... – “Thought stirs the emotions and then emotion stirs more mental activity. And so it goes on.” 📃 Reaction and Response – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/art... – “Responsibility is having a pause in any situation.” 📃 Emotion Is Past – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/art... – “Whenever I am feeling emotional, which means disturbed, I am attached to or relating to the past.” 📃 The Truth Is Being Intelligent – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/art... – “The truth is not about being clever. The truth is being intelligent.” 🏷 Psychic possession – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/top... – “It's very easy to be possessed by anger…” 🏷 Attachment and Detachment – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/top... – “…to be detached is to give up the concern about it all, let it rest where it is…” 🏷 Identifying emotional content – cleaning the mirror of inner space – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/top... – “What you think about is what you're attached to.” 🏷 Levels of intelligence – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/top... – “Intelligence is self knowledge.” 🏷 Being true to the situation – https://www.barrylong.org/archive/top... – “Every situation needs to be looked at, not to be felt about.” ~ About The Barry Long Archive: The Barry Long Archive is a repository of over 20 years of Barry Long’s teachings. The archive currently features more than 350 videos, the full podcast, and over 1500 audio recordings on the way – these will be added over time as the archive continues to grow. The archive offers two subscription options: monthly and yearly, with the longer plan offering concessionary rates. The subscription includes unlimited streaming of all available content for the duration of your access. Link: https://www.barrylong.org/archive Subscription: https://www.barrylong.org/subscriptions ~ Barry Long was a spiritual teacher who taught internationally from the 1980's up until his death in 2003. His spiritual teaching is grounded in practicality and addresses all aspects of modern day life. http://www.barrylong.org   / barrylongquotes     / barrylongnews     / barrylong.truerealandhere