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What makes us angry? Mostly, it’s a situation we dislike. Anger is a fine energy that vibrates at a high frequency, akin to high voltage electricity. Energy always flows towards a negative pole; the situation we are upset at is the negative pole and this very powerful energy, in the form of anger, flows out from within. In turn, it energises the very situation we dislike. Simply put, we lose the finest energy we have. When angry, we are in a very negative state.
Is it possible to transform this energy? At the time of expression can we change our negative reaction into a positive one? If we can, the energy that was flowing out reverses and comes back to us. If we can do this, not only does the energy come back but it does so with interest, it brings along with it a very special energy, which my teacher called the energy of the essence of consciousness. Yogis and rishis spend their whole lives striving for the slightest of experience of this energy.

Nature wants us to get angry. She needs very fine psychic energy to perform her functions. The only source of this psychic energy is a human being. Every time we get angry, we are serving her purpose. Before the impulse of anger and its expression is a small gap which has to be bridged, like a bridging loan we take for a factory. It is in this gap that nature gives us her precious energy so that there is no pause between getting angry and expressing it.

Say, we are angry because the bus is late. We allow the energy of anger to manifest in us like a tidal wave. We bring it to the point of expression at our lips and then suddenly change from a negative attitude to a positive one. Now all the energy which was moving towards an explosion reverses with the additional energy of essence of consciousness. We tricked nature into releasing it when we brought the anger to the point of exploding. Almost like a game of who blinks first.

As we gather this energy we bring about a transformation of our psyche and start experiencing the most blissful states of samadhi. This simple exercise can lead us to the highest state of yoga.