All change starts from within. The sooner you recognize that you are ten times more likely to affect change from within than projected without, you can relax your focus on where it really needs to be grounded. You are the instrument of change. All of us, every single one of us, and every cell we are composed of, is holy. I can say this with confidence, because all consciousness is imbued with God, by God, of God. In this, we are given levels of free will to experience and learn.

So how does an idea like ’self-righteous anger’ apply to big thoughts like Love and Anger (the good kind of anger, for an explanation of SRA as I define it, please see the previous post)? Love, by its very mandate, is righteous; it IS the right by which we exist. Anger has its just moments, although they are far and few between. There are moments in time, however, that call for strong decisions to be made, where we as a human race are to be called to work together to really take on injustice in many ways.

There is always talk about how problems need to be solved – by the government, by the media, by celebrities through the media – yet, ironically, many of these problems never get solved. So, step one I am asking you to take is to take this leap of faith with me: these problems don’t get solved because there are many that benefit from them not being solved! Let that sink in for a second. Think about it: if everyone on Earth decided to tackle hunger, it would be solved within a year or so. That’s a fact. IF, IF everyone wanted it solved. That’s a big IF.

Those kinds of ideas invite instant questions, as they should. But the fact remains, if we collectively wanted to solve those problems, we could. But, deep down, we must face how we contribute or, even better, look the other way on these issues. I don’t say that because I think you should feel guilty. I say it because I think we should feel truth, we should experience truth.

Now, this is not some kind of lame ‘people have the power’ type speech. People don’t have the power. Yes, you read me right: people don’t have the power, because they have given it away, long before you and I were born. Given it away for security or convenience, but yes, the power has been given away, so this is to talk about how to reclaim it. After all, you can certainly begin to reclaim your power. That choice you can make.

So, I’m going to ask this question to myself: how does one begin by applying the right kind of anger within?

Well, that’s a little tricky, because, done from the wrong place, it turns into guilt or shame or self-abuse. You have to start by identifying that which is yours and that which isn’t. Things that are not ‘yours’ involve ideas given to you by your family or culture, barbs wrapped in implied commitments or obligations. Try to let go of every idea you have picked up along the way.

If you can kind of do that, even just a little, you’ll see that what’s left is what you think of yourself, as you are, to yourself. If you are harsh in your assessment, try to be kind so that the point I am circling around can be made.

If you can find this spot within yourself that says, “I matter, my life is an opportunity, I don’t want to waste it, I want to know what God wants from me,” that is soil this seed can grow from. Your seed can easily grow into, “I don’t like what I see, injustice in this world offends me, I will not stand for being lied too.” The anger is not to be applied to you. Instead, the anger is to come from you from the fresh spring of your right to positively and actively shape your world.

You have a right to be angry. Identify that right, and the decisions that can be made afterward will be rooted in the Divine Right for Peace.