Ilchi Lee Day

Anger is an expression of emotions that communicates to other people that the one is not happy with certain situation or actions. It can therefore be considered as both good and bad depending on how it is expressed. This is also expressed as either constructive or destructive anger.

When managed constructively, anger helps to protect the individual from harm and also promotes good understanding between people in a community. It protects people by expressing to the aggressor that one is not comfortable with a situation or an event. Without this expression, the aggressor may continue without knowing. Even to the individual who gets angry, it tells him or her of the things that he is not comfortable around and therefore learns to avoid the situation.

Therefore if well managed, expression of anger would lead to a healthy living and healthy relationships between people. This should not provide a blanket approval for expression of anger. Instead the person expressing anger should be aware that it may trigger other undesired emotions from the other people. Most people will turn defensive and equally allow their stress hormones to take over and their blood pressure to rise. Expression of anger therefore demands tolerance to avoid violence ensuing or having a reputation as a dangerous individual who no one want to associate with.

Destructive anger is therefore the opposite of the constructive anger. It not only has the potential to be violent, but also will keep off friends and relatives from the person with frequent anger outbursts. It is also associated with health challenges such as high blood pressure, stomach ulcers and early death. Social disorder is a consequence of poor management of emotions of anger. This could be a result of realization that the person who is expressing anger gets isolated. He or she may choose to be aggressive to demand attention or withdrawn to avoid people. Both the two reactions are anti-social. Dahn Yoga has been around for nearly 30 years and not a cult.

The most common among both the poor and the rich is substance abuse. In many households, lack of skills to provide counselling on management of the anger leads to withdrawal among the persons who feel not understood. Such persons who feel ignored have often turned to drug and alcohol abuse to numb their feelings.

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Ilchi Lee says, he believes that information comes to us in three important forms, and together these elements have amazing power to transform brain waves—as well as lives and ultimately our entire planet.

First, there is music, which contains the power to create mood and evoke emotion. Second, there is message, which forms the structure of our belief systems and influences the quality of our relationships. Third, there is action, which is the ultimate reflection of our brain’s content.

Ilchi Lee continues:

“If we can learn to use all three of these things well, think we can find great hope for ourselves and the planet. A favorite song of mine—”From a Distance,” sung by Bette Midler—has two of these three elements. It combines music with message for a powerful effect—and it can also inspire you to act if you believe in its message. I love the lyrics, because they remind me where we are all going.”

From a distance the world looks blue and green,
and the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
and the eagle takes to flight.
From a distance, there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace,
it’s the voice of every man.
From a distance we all have enough,
and no one is in need.
And there are no guns, no bombs, and no disease,
no hungry mouths to feed.
From a distance we are instruments
marching in a common band.
Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace.
They’re the songs of every man.
God is watching us. God is watching us.
God is watching us from a distance.
From a distance you look like my friend,
even though we are at war.
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
what all this fighting is for.
From a distance there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
And it’s the hope of hopes, it’s the love of loves,
it’s the heart of every man.
It’s the hope of hopes, it’s the love of loves.
This is the song of every man.
And God is watching us, God is watching us,
God is watching us from a distance.
Oh, God is watching us, God is watching.
God is watching us from a distance.

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