Again, consider anger. When it has been long suppressed, muted, muzzled, locked up in darkness, it will likely show up in far-from-healthy forms once it breaks out of its confinement. This doesn’t mean that anger itself is a bad or unwholesome thing; its overcontainment and mistreatment is the problem. Meeting and exploring our anger—or any other emotion—in a compassionately contained, well-lit space allows us to see it more clearly, deepening our capacity to express it in ways that serve our well-being and the well-being of others. There’s no true escape from our shadow elements, for they are
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