Stasia Bliss: How Anger Can Be Your Friend

<p>•  So I really wanted you on this podcast because I feel it's so important to discuss emotions like anger and frustration. I feel like when people are doing these mindset practices, when they're really trying to grow spiritually and they're trying to be more connected and they're trying to just be a better person overall, that when these emotions come up. It can be really challenging, it can be conflicting because part of them could say, Well, I shouldn't be angry, I shouldn't be upset, I shouldn't be frustrated. I feel like I'm growing spiritually, I feel like I'm becoming a better person. I feel like I'm letting go of thoughts and feelings that aren't serving me. Like Why am I still frustrated and why am I so angry? And it can turn into a shame and guilt. (03:35)</p><p>• Right, so we're trying to figure out what we do with that. So what I like to lead people into is a power source anger, empowered anger. So, what this means to me is recognizing that it is a powerful emotion, it's actually a fuel and a power source, if we understand what it is, and that if somebody is invoking that feeling in us, it's actually an opportunity for empowerment. It's an opportunity for us to look at, Hey, have I been calling power into my life somewhere, and if I have, how can this opportunity of this anger that I feel be a fuel for the very thing I want to get done? If that makes sense. So to channel that fuel for me, a lot of times when I get angry, I allow myself to put it right into cleaning my house, and I clean my house better than I ever normally do, because of the fuel of the anger. And I always turn and I thank the person that got me mad, I'm like, Thank you so much, I really need to clean my house, and I just channel that anger into something that's helpful to me.  (06:05)</p><p>•  So again, there's a couple of different layers here. So, sometimes we don't have the luxury of immediately understanding why that anger is coming up, it kind of takes over our brain for a minute and we really just feel like the raw emotion of