Hi, Vandal. Namaste - I honor the light within you. I had trouble with rage, sadness and other mood problems. I got attuned to Reiki. Attunement is the process of energy transfer or initiation. For me, it was a powerful re-birth, but was gentle and subtle. No visions or anything dramatic during the attunement. But the immediate aftermath proved to me that something had really happened...

I had years of meditation experience (yoga, Zen, etc) before I got attuned, but I still had problems with sadness, anger, and bouts of irritation. The Reiki attunement astonished me. It seemed to start up something strong, clear, and persisitent in the middle of my head, and also left me feeling refreshed, confident, and full of genuine "heart values," as people call them. Before, my morning meditation had centered me temporarily and put me in a good mood, but I'd often drift away from that center during the day (and then re-establish it in the evening, when I'd meditate again). After my Reiki attunement I've tended to remain centered much, much more of the time.

And this was interesting... I found that both neighborhood pet animals (like cats and dogs) all liked me better, and people did also. About three times as many people just naturally showed how they liked me! That was an almost magical result of my attunement. I had my first experience ever, a few weeks after my attunement, of a songbird gently perching on my head while I was meditating outside. I really enjoyed that!

I cannot say how the Reiki attunement will affect other people, and what I've described is just the result in my life. But I did put a little survey or poll here (on the Tribe.net Reiki forum) and two-thirds of the people who responded said that getting attuned to Reiki radically changed their life for the better, and most of the others said that it had a noticeably positive effct on their lives.

Good luck in putting the rage problem behind you. All the best...

Tanemon

tHEN FOCUS ON SOMETHING ELSE!

aNGER IS AND EGO AND IT IS FUELED AND WILL ATTRACT LIKE ENERGY! ASK YOUR DIVEINE INNER MOTHER! (HOLY SPIRIT) TO HELP YOU WITH THIS PROBLEM!

LOOK AT YOUR ANGER AND UNDERSTAND ITS ROOT THEN YOU WILL BE MORE ABLE TO BE IN CONTROL.

ALL NEGATIVE FEELINGS COME FROM FEAR!

tHE MORE YOU FOCUS AND TRY TO RESIST THE MORE IT WILL PERSIST! pRAY FOR AND MEDITATE ON PEACE, bREATH IN PEACE AND BREATH OUT LOVE! EXTEND THIS PRACTICE ONCE MASTERED TO 15 MINS

BEGIN BY BREATHIN 4X4 PATTERN BREATH IN COUNT OF 4 HOLD FOR 4
bREATH OUT " " 4 HOLD ON EMPTY FOR 4

BY THE TIME YOU HAVE PRACTICED THIS AND BY THE TIME YOU HAVE IT IN A NICE FLOW AND BALANCED BREATH YOU WILL HAVE CALMED YOUR THOUGHTS

THOUGHTS FOLLOW THE BREATH SLOW IT RIGHT DOWN AND THOUGHTS BECOME TRANSPARENT AND MORE PEACEFUL!!!!!

Hi Vandal. Thanks for your post as I often feel the rage as well. Have you ever tried cutting out all stimulants for a week or so? Our bodies are already over-stimulated but ingesting too much of any form of sugar, or coffee, tobacco, and even garlic and onions can be hard on the nerves and enhance irritability. Just a thought as I know that I feel less anger when I cut out certain things. You may also want to get out of the city as much as possible; if you are in one.

Something good about this issue is that it demonstrates a really good grip!yes?
Well,ya might ask your self if it's,(the anger)......worth....... what you have on your plate.
Then move your self aside,and move forward.

Some of the breathing practices mentioned i've used to establish a zone,then grow it to encompass
my daily activities.Best wishes,....rik.

from the initial discription, sounds like there might also be some OCD going on...
rage is one thing, obsession quite another...

you might try this exercise:

Feel the feeling that you want to release, but don't name it, just feel it.

Rub your third eye area counter-clockwise to yourself (to the left)
Acknowledge the feeling, greet it, say hello to it.
Say: "It's good for me to let you go", "It's good for others that I let you go," "It's safe for me to let you go."
Repeat "Release, release, release," until you feel like it is complete, then give it an enthusiastic "RELEASE!"

And that's it... but do not do while driving, as you never know how deep rooted the feelings are and you may have to sit and process it for a while. If you feel another emotion bubble up afterwards, release that as well.

many blessings,
heart to heart,
Dawna

SWEETHEART~ I know it's simplistic: JUST.BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!
~helps body to relax to help you focus, calms you spirit IE: anxiety
HELPS ALSO to remind you live & RELAX!!!!!
peace sista ;)*

I would say there are a couple of steps involved before you can let it go. Letting go of anger or another powerful emotion can sometimes be a way of avoiding it or not wanting to feel something deeper. My practice involves first accepting the anger, if it is present then it is here so by accepting it I drop my resistance to what is. The resistance to it or fighting it is often what makes it persist and actually makes it stronger. If you accept it and give up any struggle then you have the opportunity to use it in a way that is healing. You can then sit with the anger and turn your full attention into it, feel it deeply, just the raw feeling of it not all the thoughts and the mind story that goes along with it. If you go into it deeply this way you may find that there are deeper feelings beneath it that are needing to be felt and expressed, anger is often a mask for something deeper and more vulnerable. When you are feeling an emotion it is also very healing to remember that it is not permanent just a passing state of mind and also that you are not that state of mind, this helps you to not identify with the state of mind which creates some space to let go........

here is a taoist trick i use which works very well for realigning anger energy...
clasp your hands in front of your heart area, but turn the hands upside down in front of you then clasp... then simply bring the hands down the center line of your body, stopping when your elbows are straight... breath out while doing this motion...
works well... instant calming effect...
for severe bouts, do it a few times until you can really focus on bringing the heat of the anger down

a good follow up for that is to imagine the energy running the circle of energy circuits..
imagining the energy drawn in through your root chakra up your backto the crown chakra and then cycling the higher energy you picked up in the top chakras down the front of you through the other chakras, and keep cycling on the breath... in for up and out for down... this will help to balance the energy overall and lends a charged and energetic feeling to the peace and calm...

It's okay to get angry, it's what you do with that energy that counts.

Honor your inner child - that part of each of us that is fun-loving, playful, young-at-heart, that part of you that feels like you are being hurt or wants attention. Not having our needs met can make us really angry, and sometimes honoring THAT is key. Honor WHY you feel this way. Maybe getting upset over something "stupid" or "meaningless" is a cover for something deeper we're ignoring - but I'll bet that more often than not it is what it is, and it's not as "stupid" or "meaningless" as we'd like to believe it is!

I was recently assigned homework by my shaman to do a ritual to purge a lot of anger I had around a particular situation in my life - long story short, I got to go down to the beach, dig a hole, and scream my guts out into the hole! Then cover it and thank mama earth for taking it from me. It wasn't a fix-all solution, but it REALLY HELPED!