Some transcribed excerpts:
“...So I wanted to make this short video about anger and rage, and how so much of my relationship and many people I know’s relationship with anger is “tainted” (for lack of a better word) by angry fathers, by war, by passive aggression, by bullying, just to name a few. But, essentially, we live, I live, and many of us live (who are watching this video) in an overculture which has no initiatory processes around anger...”
“...If you’ve ever seen a child that age expressing their emotions, it’s huge. It’s Huge, it’s loud, it’s out of control, and those children make no apologies for what they do. In our adult bodies we still have the energy and the information of those feelings, however the information can be all whacked out and all over the place because of the message we’ve gotten from parents, caregivers, from society, from teachers, from all these places. And so focusing just in on Anger. Our anger is not an error...”
“...Our anger, we need, I need, to take a stand for the things that I care about, to say no to things, to say stop when something is happening to me or to someone else that is not OK. The sensation arises, and then I can make a choice about that...”
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