About the LGAT attitude toward anger:
There seems to be the attitude that anger is "not very evolved."
In the New Age community, we are said to have created everything that happens to us, so if we become angry, we are seen as "projecting" our stuff all over the other person. There ARE cases where this is true, or where we are responsible, at least in part, for our own unfavorable outcomes. I do always feel the need to look at that.
The problem is when these groups apply it to EVERY situation, no matter how inappropriate, and try to get someone who has been wronged to take ALL of the blame, even when wronged maliciously. You could be randomly attacked, mugged, raped, and they would tell you to ask yourself, "What I am doing that causes me to need to be treated this way?" In their view, the other person has done you a favor by highlighting this weakness for you. You are told to not "make the other person wrong."
The physical overwhelming of the nervous system, by the environment and by sleep deprivation, has a numbing effect. This can take away some of the intensity of the anger, but also shuts down positive emotions. I felt like a zombie.
There seems to be the attitude that anger is "not very evolved."
In the New Age community, we are said to have created everything that happens to us, so if we become angry, we are seen as "projecting" our stuff all over the other person. There ARE cases where this is true, or where we are responsible, at least in part, for our own unfavorable outcomes. I do always feel the need to look at that.
The problem is when these groups apply it to EVERY situation, no matter how inappropriate, and try to get someone who has been wronged to take ALL of the blame, even when wronged maliciously. You could be randomly attacked, mugged, raped, and they would tell you to ask yourself, "What I am doing that causes me to need to be treated this way?" In their view, the other person has done you a favor by highlighting this weakness for you. You are told to not "make the other person wrong."
The physical overwhelming of the nervous system, by the environment and by sleep deprivation, has a numbing effect. This can take away some of the intensity of the anger, but also shuts down positive emotions. I felt like a zombie.
