I need to find a way to experience my old anger and resentment without living in it. When I live in it, I ruin my own day. When I deny it, I create a dark spot on my emotional lungs that keeps me from being able to breathe deeply and fully; I pretend that I don’t have anger that I do have and I miss the insights that my anger might offer into what hurts and upsets me. When I get lost or stuck in anger and resentment, I spend all my time justifying why I have a right to be angry. Or I project and disown it, making my painful or negative feelings about someone or something outside of me. Today, I will allow myself to feel my own anger and see what it has to tell me before I dump it, act it out, make it about someone or something else or medicate it. I will sit with it and let it sit with me. I will witness my feelings without trying to control them.

 I am capable of processing my anger

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha