クリスティン・ベルのインスタグラム(kristenanniebell) - 8月20日 02時26分

REAL TALK.

Good morning. I think about this a LOT. I know from personal experience, when I’m feeling angry, I look around for things to be angry about, to justify my feeling that way. Obviously when you look for things to be angry about, you’re gonna find them. Same goes for the opposite though. When I’m feeling joyful, I seek out evidence to support this feeling, which just increases the intensity of the emotion.
I’ve found the trick is to, when I’m feeling angry, seek out, or do things that bring me joy. I act how I want to feel, instead of acting how I already feel. Hope this helps.
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lachristysue As a therapist and social justice activist, I think about this a lot. I think anger is a fine feeling, BUT I’d say our culture has not found the most healthy ways of dealing with it. We do need to feel it and have it inform us, but anger can become a poison that steals your energy for joy too. We can’t let all the things that enrage us, rob us of the joy in life too. I’m not a fan of the saying, “If you are not angry, you are not paying attention.” Because I’m not convinced that anger helps us stay present and pay attention. There are gentler ways of staying informed and active for the long haul struggle for justice and ending oppression. I see too much burn out in people who think they should be angry “all the time”. Yes it’s a feeling we should have initially, but then we must choose to respond skillfully with the information our anger gave us.

karenjoyroth I love you and your positivity and compassion.....but I’m an empath and feel others’ pain. I sometimes feel guilty when feeling joyful when I know so many others are feeling so much anguish. At times I feel the sadness of the world and just feel so “heavy” with it all. I know my sadness and worry don’t help those who are suffering so I have to separate myself from it all for my own well being. I can’t help if I’m suffering, too. I don’t think I’m the only one feeling this way....

mojo_orin I understand the sentiment, but some of us who are policed more than others cannot extract our rage from a subject directly affecting our daily lives. There is a level of privilege in this post, and there are true horrors happening globally right now that we should rightfully be enraged about. Anger isn’t a bad emotion, it’s just treated as such because there’s comfort in complicity. Just my two cents.

laura.b.corcoran I’ve been studying the Yoga sutras around non-attachment for this very reason. Allowing our own energy to be shaped by the external influences serves neither ourselves or the issue/situation/person we are attaching to. Care? Yes. Control your own energy so that you can still be mindful and balanced? YES. Work in progress over here, always. Thanks for sharing, Mom!

juliealspaugh Joy is so much more rebellious than its ever given credit for. People look at the joyfilled, and see naivete. It's not that we don't see the pain, the brutal, that we don't live it and experience it with the world.... But we rebel, rebuke, the darkness that threatens to consume.... A light the darkness cannot extinguish. Rebel.

kjl1976 This ones hard. I struggle with finding joy while so many terrible things are going on. Not necessarily guilt, but really an inability to feel anything but the horror and sadness of what’s happening. Needless to say, I’m medicated! 😂

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