Calm In The Midst Of Chaos...

"...ashes ashes, we all fall down..."

The young king comes out of his room and enters the living room.  His mother stares at him for 30 seconds and says "You should become a Castle Guard my son, this way you can release your rage onto criminals".  He dismissed it with a chuckle but eventually came to understand what she saw in him.  It was time to work on it...

Listen to the posted song.  Dismiss the backbeat and listen to it's rage, it's anger...feel it all.  Let the images of pain and hurt flood your mind.  Now...don't move a muscle.  Don't let your face show expression and watch the show inside.  Don't fear it, don't bottle it.  Feel it in your hands.  Feel it travel to your legs and make it's way up your spine to the back of your neck.  There...that is the heat waiting to be released.  Now...find all the reasoning behind the imagery.  Understand every scene and settle them inside.  To release what you don't understand would cause chaotic destruction.  To understand what you don't release through violent action gives you more than enough reasons why they are truly unworthy of release at all.  You are now beginning to master the fight or flight instinct in every human being as the needed defense mechanism it is.

Anxiety is the same way.  The flood of emotions that hit cause a level of fear and paranoia that can paralyze.  Keep calm and name every emotion.  Watch them all converge into a rapid heartbeat and understand why each emotion has no place in the current circumstance you're in.  Watch them all disappear.  Now...move.  I have these regularly and can tell you when I'm having one as a matter of fact.  A quick thought process and a couple of breaths and these become as important as a cramping muscle...stretch it out...

To be able to remain outwardly calm in any environment while you reason your inner turmoil to settle does not have to be the work of a pill.  If this is your route of choice then you will always be a slave to your environment without that crutch.  It can be done but it takes work.  These supposedly therapeutic drugs that are nothing more than prescribed opiates are creating a society that will cower in fear at the sight of any enemy or the smallest catastrophe because people are substituting natural training under pressure with the ability to not feel anything at all.  I remember a time when a child that "acted up" needed better parenting.  Now, they diagnose him with ADD and give him a mind numbing pill.  That pill may allow him to function but will never allow him to see his full potential as a human being.  Your inner turmoil is a necessity for proper growth.

Now some may say that anger is an evil but it is anger that does not allow you to be easily controlled. When anger is channeled into righteous indignation based on both truth and equity, it becomes an unending fuel that is reasoned, calm and properly placed.  Keep in mind that without it, man would never have had the temerity to claim his God given rights.  Everything inside you is there for a reason.  Some things need to be tempered and others need to be directed right through self-awareness...but all serve a purpose. 

Understand that as humans we are both peace and war, water and fire...love and hate.  One can never truly appreciate one without it's counter.  To see and accept it all is to accept inner balance as a prerequisite to inner wholeness.  So don't ever fear what you are...understand it and live.  I'm out...

At once the king, now older, was flooded with rage over a disrespectful comment directed at someone he cared about.  A reasoned message calmed him down as though a hand had been placed on his shoulder.  He was perplexed but eventually understood that this is exactly what he had come to learn...to reason his rage to settle.  The disrespectful man was still a fool worthy of a hand across the face but the king knew that this would happen in time...just not from him.

   

~Moses and Apollo