Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Anger as suppressed desire

When I'm experiencing and working with anger in a psychotherapy session, I'm usually quite uncomfortable, and often this thought comes to mind: "There's no use! It's no use! What's the point?"

Occurred to me this morning during walking meditation that the source of this thought is desire. That an element of the anger is suppressed desire. It's suppressed because I learned long ago that certain desires would not be fulfilled, despite my most fervent wishes and earnest efforts. Now I am looking forward to feeling that desire and learning more about it. What am I desiring?

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