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Our creator, whom we might call the One, the All That Is, chose in its wisdom to create for itself the experience of many individual selves. Because in Ultimate Reality, there is only one state of being, the One which we are had to create an illusion of separateness. In order to create the illusion of separateness from One, we had to create a subjective experience of something that is not that One. So, there was created the experience of good and evil, time and space, dark and light, male and female and all of what we experience as duality of life. The One created these dualities and all of the circumstances of separateness, knowing that the challenges and dangers innate within them would create a wonderful adventure of forgetfulness of Self and then the consequent Re-Membering of Self which is the return to the consciousness of Oneness.

In the heart of the One there is no judgement or punishment for experiencing any aspect of separateness and duality. All possible circumstances are acceptable and appropriate because they were all created for the purpose of experiencing separateness which is an illusion to be overcome, so that we may joyously return to a state of perfect Love and Oneness and be able to recognize it in all its glory and joy, which is so much greater for the experience, although an illusion, of something else.

I say this because it is important for you to let go of judgement and shame about your negative feelings. Until you accept them, they cannot be healed. Once they are accepted they can be transmuted back into unconditional love that is the only real substance of the universe.

People are composed of a divine spirit living within an animal body. Our spirit self, knowing its innate Oneness, is the expression of perfect love Our animal body has many of the powers and instincts of any animal plus, of course, the specialized aspects of the human.
Animal instinct, created for the preservation of self and species, inclines an animal to react to a threat by running away, fighting or demonstrating a passive, non-threatening attitude. These reactions exist for human beings, but we have the added stress of a society which teaches us to deny our instinctual reactions, to be nice, do what we're told, and poses what is in many cases the greater threat of being ostracized or in the case of children of being rejected by parents, which may seem more life threatening than whatever abuse is going on.

When we are hurt, we immediately react with anger. Take a look at a small child and you will see that the first response to being hurt is to blame someone else, even if the pain is caused by his or her own actions. They will look at you as if to say "how could you do this to me?" Again, thinking of small children, before they are trained to behave in a civilized manner, they tend to react with physical force and tremendous emotional energy in order to get what they need or want. As we grow up we are taught to behave as we should and we learn to think before we act. It is obviously necessary for people to control their behavior, but the fact of control doesn't mean that the underlying reaction goes away necessarily. When we feel threatened or hurt, our first response is to react with force to stop it. The outward action may be repressed but the chemical reaction in the body is to fight or run, and the energetic force of an equally inexpressible emotion often accompanies that physical reaction. The force of this response stays in the body and aura unless it is released. This exercise is a way to not only release the stored energy of the reactions we have suppressed, but to turn those energies back into their primary essence which is unconditional love. This frees up a tremendous amount of energy for more creative activities.

When we have repressed emotional reactions stored up, it takes a tremendous amount to energy to keep them repressed. Each time something upsets us, and our emotions get riled up, along with a reasonable emotional response there comes the force of all the emotions that you have stored up about a similar situation in the past, and so your reaction becomes excessively strong to even minor threats and offenses. When a "good" person finds himself or herself overreacting because of this, they learn to simply stay away from any negative response at all. People like these learn to please others at all costs; to keep the peace, so that no violent interactions take place. For one of these "good" people who have been through great trauma, especially at the hands of those they love such as close family, the fear of their own repressed violence is huge. Often the single most frightening aspect of remembering abuse is the memory of how a person felt so angry that they wanted to kill the abuser, or wished they were dead. These feelings can sometimes be very powerful, and yet, of course, a sane and loving person would not act on them. However, not acting on these powerful reactions costs a great deal to the person who holds in that power. They have to hold it in for the rest of their life, unless they find a way to release it in a safe and effective manner.

Traditional approaches to the release of anger have tended to get people hitting pillows with tennis rackets or talking about it. Most people that I have worked with found these techniques to be both embarrassing and ineffective. The technique that you will learn here will be quite different. Everything that you do will be in the privacy of your own imagination, to be shared only if you desire, and if you follow the instructions, when you are done you will probably feel years younger and tons lighter, peaceful and free.