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Anger: All the Cool Kids Are Feeling It
Episode 103 • 21st July 2022 • The Shek Check • The Shek Check
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There are a lot of messages regarding anger and feeling angry. Being told it is bad, negative, and that it will drain you of your goodness. Hearing messages telling you to “manage" your anger or the importance to "calm down" when you are feeling angry. What if that was bullsh*t? At least some of the time.

What if anger was not the dark violent storm you were taught it is? What if anger was actually the clarity to guide you in the storm? It is true that our emotions carry energy within us- so how can we use that energy instead of thinking we need to diffuse it? 

Don't be a loser- figure out and feel your anger like the cool kids do.

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If you like this episode, you might like my chat with Author and Therapist Ralph De La Rosa where we discussed the importance of rage and anger. Check it out: https://theshekcheck.com/episodes/ralph-de-la-rosa-reality-rage-and-resiliency/

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What is up.

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I am Erez Shek and you are checking in with The Shek Check; the podcast,

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The discovery of a lifetime lifetime, lifetime lifetime.

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And today let's talk about "MEETING YOUR ANGER WHERE YOU ARE".

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Let's get Shekked, let's get Shekked, let's get Shekked, let's get Shekked.

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There is a lot to be angry about in this world.

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Well, in my eyes, there's a lot to be angry about and in many

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ways I hope there is a lot you are angry about in this world.

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You know, I'm reminded of a past episode when I had therapist and

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author, Ralph Del Rosa on my show, we talked about anger and rage.

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We talked about his book perfectly titled, as "DON'T TELL ME TO RELAX:

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EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE IN THE AGE OF RAGE, FEELS, & FREAKOUTS" . If you wanna

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check out that episode, you can check out the link in the show's description.

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But not yet.

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Right now.

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You are with me.

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You are here in this episode.

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Yay.

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Yeah.

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Now a good portion of the time when we feel strong emotions like anger,

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we automatically jump into thinking that they are bad or negative, right?

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That they're not helpful, dangerous perhaps, energy drainers.

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We immediately think consciously or subconsciously- how can I

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get away from this feeling?

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How can I stop being angry?

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How can I dare I say, calm down.

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I think it's really our fear about anger.

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You know, the learned shame around feeling anger that is more of a problem

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than the anger itself, or maybe our fear of what actions we will take

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from our anger, because anger and the way we express it are interconnected,

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but they're not the same thing.

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We hear about managing our anger, right?

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Anger management- as if we can actually manage an emotion when really

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what we need to look at is how we manage our expression of that anger.

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And then I realize something.

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What if it's not even how we manage our expression of that anger, but rather what

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we do with that energy- the energy that we get from the feeling, the energy that

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ignites in us, the, the anger energy, or the angry energy, or the energy of anger,

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whatever, like, however you wanna call it.

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I'm talking about energy right?

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Because all our emotions hold energy in us.

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They all ignite something within us.

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When we feel strong emotions that have been called negative, we think we need

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to escape them, get rid of them and calm ourselves down when actually.

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What we might need is to match it and send it into more productive directions.

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Yes, yes.

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Yes.

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Anger is information just like any feeling is information.

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You know, it's information of, of what we respond to as an injustice.

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It is information on pain.

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It is information on our hurt.

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However, seeking to understand that anger and the information it is holding

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or sending you in the very moment...

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is not always needed.

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We can't over intellectualize everything that we're feeling.

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Understanding what information the feeling is giving you in that moment

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is not necessarily helpful, or it might not necessarily be the answer

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or a part of a process to simmer down, to calm down, blah, blah, blah.

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Because we're told if we're feeling certain emotions, we need to calm down.

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The question, I think, that matters more than the information that you can

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find in the emotion in order to calm down is what can you do with that anger?

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What can, what, what can it push you to do that might be more productive,

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healthy, and affirming because the anger.

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It's not unhealthy.

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It's not bad.

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What you are feeling is not bad.

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You don't need to move away from that feeling because that anger,

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that feeling can be a driving force.

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For instance, you know, as a gay man, there is so much right now that is in.

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The process of being taken away from me and my rights and it massively

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scares me and it massively angers me and the fact that people don't see

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that massively angers me as well.

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Right?

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And, and the fear and the anger are coexisting.

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And it's hard to back off from that.

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I think anybody who faces that much hate for who they are, should

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be scared and should be angry.

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I think anyone whose human rights are being questioned constantly

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should be scared and should be angry.

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So if I'm scared and angry, what purpose does it serve me to calm down?

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Sure.

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We can go with the thinking that I might, you know, be able to think more clearly

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if I calm down for my anger and fear, but what if anger is not making me unclear?

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What if anger is not clouding my judgements?

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What if it is actually pointing me very clearly into a direction that I need

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to focus on, like being more active and fighting against the religious voices,

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the political voices, the ignorant voices, the heteronormative voices.

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What if that anger is my clarity?

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And if I come down from it, I lose the clarity.

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The anger, that energy, it serves a purpose when I look to see

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how I can redirect and use it.

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Is it applicable to any time I feel anger?

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Nah.

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Nothing is a hundred percent.

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I do think it's worth it for you, for me to test the waters.

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What if...

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what if whatever you are feeling angry about doesn't need your calmness?

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Does it need the age, old societal oppression and

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suppression of your emotion?

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What if that anger that you feel just needs to be redirected to something

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that works for you and your wellness without you trying to mute it or get away

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from it or suppress it or repress it?

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The teachings we get from society regarding our good and bad emotions

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will always focus on how we can bypass certain emotions and emotional states.

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When sometimes the healthiest thing we can do with ourselves

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is to use and utilize it.

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Utilize the emotion.

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Something to think about and check yourself on, because that's what

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we do here at The Shek Check.

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We check ourselves.

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prompts to check yourself on the less you potentially wreck yourself.

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And we like that, don't we?

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I mean, I do, I hope, I mean, I do, but I'm also creating it.

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So like, you know, but I hope you do too, because that, I mean,

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that would, that would be great.

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I would like that very much.

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So.

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Yeah, let's do that.

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And also, uh, please remember to keep taking care of yourself in

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whatever way that you see fit or are discovering because when you

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are taking care of you, you are taking care of all those around you.

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Unfortunately it's the people you don't like as well, but

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you know, it is what it is.

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So do that.

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Please.