Anger Is Never the First Feeling We Feel
Most everyone is familiar with the old image of a ball and chain around the leg of an inmate. And many of us are aware of what this same sort of emotional ball and chain feels like inside our chests. As the chain wraps itself tightly around our hearts, the ball feels like a thousand pounds of lead against our souls. Our inner ball and chain constantly weigh us down because they are filled with many years of unexpressed, and thus unresolved, emotions. We’re aching with dishonored feelings of betrayal, disappointment, loss, abandonment, anxiety, hurt, fear and sadness. And every so often, when we can no longer repress these feelings, we erupt like a volcano spewing anger and rage at the world and any person in our path. Unfelt and unexpressed emotions stay trapped inside of us. Eventually, they become buried within us and transform our souls into graveyards of the living dead. Unprocessed feelings never die. They moan, ache, shiver and screech, but they never die. At times they seem do...