Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

What you resist persists
.
Since anger represents energy in motion, resisting it
just keeps it stuck within us — until the volcano erupts.
Releasing anger actually means freeing the stuck en-
ergy of held emotions by allowing them to move freely
through the body as feeling. Doing some kind of 
anger
work
helps us experience this emotion purposefully and
with control.
Anger Work Moves Energy
What we call anger work is not really about anger. It is
simply the process of getting energy stuck in the body
moving again. It might be more appropriately called
energy release work. Whatever we call it, the process
can be as simple as screaming into a cushion (so as
not to alarm neighbors), yelling in the car, beating cush-
ions, chopping wood, or doing some other explo-
sive physical activity.
Combining physical activity with the use of the voice
seems to provide the key to successful energy release
work. All too often we block the energy of emotion in
the throat, whether that be anger, sadness, guilt, or
whatever else, so vocal expression should always be a
part of the process. We should go into it, not with the
idea of trying to rid ourselves of the feeling, but with the
intention of feeling the intensity of it moving through our
body — without thought or judgment. If we truly can
surrender to the emotions, we will feel more alive than
we have felt in a long while, and we will find that the
energy has dissipated.
If Anger Is Scary
For many of us, the thought of bringing up anger may
be too scary even to contemplate, especially if terror
lies underneath the anger. The person who did these
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terrible things to us may still exert a strong influence on
our subconscious mind. Under these circumstances,
it would not be advisable to do anger work alone. In-
stead, we should work with someone who knows how
to support us while we feel both the anger and the ter-
ror — someone with whom we feel safe and who has
experience in helping people move through intense
emotion. A counselor or psychotherapist of some kind
would be a good choice. I also recommend doing Satori
Breathwork (see Chapter 27) with a skilled practitio-
ner. This provides a way to release emotion.