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I\u2019m teaching a six-week meditation workshop at a yoga studio in our town. I\u2019ve probably taught about a dozen of them over the past eight years and have heard lots of different reactions along the way. Some say they just can\u2019t quiet their minds for more than a second or two. That\u2019s a common reaction since we are so focused in our everyday lives on doing, not being. They realize the benefits of meditation are substantial, but are frustrated. I tell them to just keep at it and watch what happens. On the other extreme, I\u2019ve heard stories from others who are meditation-prone, and possibly mediumistic, \u00a0about spirit contact taking place during meditation. Usually, it involves contact through a vision or a voice with a deceased loved one.<\/p>\n

But this time, after the second session, I was approached by two students who both experienced something else altogether following the first class. They both went home and became angry, really angry. One of them said she got enraged at her husband over some insignificant matter. Why did that happen, they wanted to know. Meditation, after all, is supposed to be about finding calmness and inner peace, not blowing up!<\/p>\n

Well, not always. Sometimes the process of meditation\u2014deep relaxation and focusing inward\u2014can release buried energy in the form of anger over old issues, possibly something that happened during childhood. It seems that anger is the opposite of what we expect from meditation, but the release of buried negative energy can be cathartic, and once it\u2019s out, it\u2019s gone for good.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, I have the feeling that other students over the years have had similar experiences, but didn\u2019t say anything about it, probably because they thought they were doing something wrong. In other words, they might\u2019ve thought that if they were really meditating, they wouldn\u2019t have such a negative reaction.<\/p>\n

Although I can\u2019t recall experiencing that reaction to meditation myself, it is a \u2018thing.\u2019 Meditation teacher and author Tom Cronin explains it this way: \u201cWhen your body is calm and descends into a deep level of metabolic rest (as it does in deep meditation), it\u2019s going to restore balance and release stresses that are stored in your body. These stresses are actually stored in the form of energy and like all energy, it can\u2019t be destroyed. It can only be transformed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The key is to be aware that the object of your anger is not necessarily the source of it. But releasing it can have positive results. Cronin gives five suggestions at the end of his article for releasing pent up anger. You can find them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more on meditation techniques….<\/p>\n

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