What can we do when we unexpectedly fill up with anger?  If you're trying to live a peaceful life, anger within yourself can feel like a sudden invasion, even if it's your own anger.  Spouses, children, parents, bosses, even friends can, upon occasion, fill us with fury!   What can we do in that moment, when we choose not to respond in anger that will make things worse, but need an avenue out of the negative barrage?  What can we do? We can rise up!  Here are thoughts to make your own:

I can rise out of this tightening in my chest and above this heat in my body.   I can rise because I know I am DIVINE!   I  know I am of God, and I have the incredible and amazing power to choose to breathe deeply, to let the anger dissipate into nothingness, and to rise UP into the joy of realization which is right above my head, so very close at hand.  I choose in this moment to remember that I am DIVINE, the power of God, which is the power to CREATE is within me, within my soul, within my mind, within my consciousness, and within every facet of myself.  Human irritations, encounters and re-encounters of old pain do not, because I have CHOICE, hold me hostage to a tight chest, a hidden stream of anger.  Anger is not Divine, it is uniquely human, it is the temper tantrum of the ego, but it is dissolved like sugar in hot coffee, when one remembers how very human it is, and how dispensable.  I breathe. I breathe in air and I breathe out air, and miraculously my mind and soul become free of the anger which moments before seemed like a solid object in my mind.

Some people we encounter are like generators of negative energy, throwing out thousands of kilowatts of bad vibes.  We can rise up and not become targets of those vibes by immediately recognizing them and choosing to rise above them.  We don't waste our own energy responding to them, but quickly marshal our own positive energy and choose to leap in consciousness to the spiritual realm.  We may have spent years fighting our way out of their energy field, but with the realization of our own divinity and power of choice, we waste no time rising up.

When we rise up into the spiritual realm or consciousness, the swirling negative energy of others cannot affect us because it cannot exist in that realm. That is where "life is good, all the time."  Negative energy is not there.  It is a consciousness of love, peacefulness, and very quiet joy.  We may be aware of the negative energy in the fields below us, but we can dismiss them smiling, knowing they have no effect on us.  Our power of choice and our skill in rising up, frees us.  For centuries, people did not know they had the power to consciously lift themselves above negativity.  We are tremendously fortunate to know this Truth. Rise Up!