What would a life without anger look like? This is our Friday Blessing this week, "Peace is our Default Mode." We can be free of all forms of anger. We are after an inner transformation to give up anger forever, and live in a state of peace all of the time. Anger does not give us anything of value. Conflict and Anger give us unhappiness. Life without anger is a lot more fun.
Anger is very destructive. But people can feel a "false power" from anger. People are addicted to anger, and under the false premise that anger gives us something valuable. Like control, domination, being "right," and other ego based "pay offs."
One is not "heard better" in a state of anger. We do not want to hear angry people. We are heard "less" when we are angry. Fear and anger go together. Underneath the anger is the fear underlying the anger. There are reasons for the anger that we are not seeing. "We are never upset for the reason we think." This is Lesson #5 in ACIM.
Anger is never justified when we are committed to Peace as our Power. We decide for harmony and a "conflict-free relationship." We have to drop our "need to be right" and start from a clean slate in which we can come to the "highest thought." We agree to restore harmony and peace with a thought and solution to which we both want and agree.
