I'd like to give a big HELL YEA to this statement. I agree.

I have bee a person filled with hate at certain periods of my life. It's bad for the soul.

DMTripper said



True indeed.

I find the very worst place to vent your anger to be on the web. Venting anger in these forums...... I've done it before. Lots of regret.

How you react and what you say in a moment of anger may not correctly reflect or represent you as a human to others. You can spend years building a repoir and seconds destroying it.

Its human to remember the bad about a person before the good. Why is that?

I find love to be more and more my mood of choice. I find that Love conquers Hate every single time.

I remember maynard talking of anger one time..saying anger can be constructive, but that hate never is.

Polytrip, have you read that book I always used to bang on about? "Feeling Good" by David D. Burns M.D. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is about training your mind to think without dysfunction (concentration on negative and ignoring positive, perfectionism, 'mind reading', etc). More recently I've been reading up on NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), which I don't think is considered 'proper' psychology yet like CBT is, but is great for motivation.

"Hate, anger, of the dark side it is!" Loving that point about being driven by compassion rather than anger. I agree anger works like an emotional cancer, whereas concentrating on compassion is ultimately enriching to the soul. And anger will only make your enemies resist you more, whereas appealing to their humanity often get results sooner. I don't know enough about the civil rights movement, but could it be said that Martin Luther King was much more influencial than the Black Panthers, and this was due to his more positive methods?

Hello,


Hate is fucked. Get worst of people. Turn them into devil's children.
But hate is not same emotion as anger. In my experience, anger can be creative. Sometimes anger is only power which allow person to cross a difficult obstacle in life. Anger is powerful emotion, not that far from willpower and courage imo.



Regards,

No one forgot about Iraq, Polytrip.

I used to hate A LOT, but ever since my experimentation with phychedelics, I have been less compelled to hate, and more driven to offer my pity upon the people that do hate.

(and I agree with the kittens)

At the root of seeing a bad world in decay is a lack of genuine self love. It's hard to love the self sometimes, especially when caught up in the everyday life of living. As within so without.

Thank you, Polytrip for creating this thread. It was what my soul needed to read today.

Thank you, Rooftop for your statement. It seems I have an infinite gas tank of rage at times, and it is more beneficial for me to look at this as fuel to facilitate positive changes in my environment, than to feel guilty for failing to eliminate the negative energy yet again.

Sometimes I just want to shake people and scream rational thoughts into their heads. However, I am finally training my thick skull to understand that people are more likely to listen to someone who speaks calmly, intelligently, and takes no part in hateful or destructive activities. I want to change the world for good, but I will not be able to if people are tuning me out because my delivery rubs them the wrong way.

Lately, I'm working on meditating for short periods every time I can feel the anger/hate overwhelming me. I close my eyes, breathe in my nose, out my mouth, and focus on the empathy and overwhelming love I feel when I have just exited hyperspace. I can't even count how many times I've come out of a breakthrough like "AHA! I got it, no more anger/depression/anxiety/fear because I'm flooded with love and empathy!!!"... then some lady cuts me off the following work day, and I start swearing and giving her the finger... WTF happened to being enlightened??

I am no where near conquering my anger/hate. It is a daily struggle. However, this life is a journey and I shouldn't get bored considering how much I have to improve on. With threads like this and you Nexians by my side, I hope to continue improving as a human so I can work to be that change I hope to see.

Peace and happy journeys

haha! more suffering!

I was already thinking to post that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-_a7FzzGps