How to Overcome Frustration

by Nicolette Beard on May 27, 2010

in Healing, Right Human Relations

The dic­tio­nary def­i­n­i­tion of frus­tra­tion is that it’s a com­mon emo­tional response to oppo­si­tion related to anger and disappointment.

Most of us (includ­ing me) think that obsta­cles which cre­ate frus­tra­tion are out­side our­selves, and we deal with these exter­nal causes either through anger, irri­ta­tion or even aggression.

My frus­tra­tion had been grow­ing over the past few weeks and, since I dis­like com­plain­ers, I wasn’t about to com­plain. Of course, that bottled-up emo­tion had to go some­where, and it did: my throat.

Curi­ous, I had the sense that this was about some­thing deeper, so I went to my book­case for inspi­ra­tion. This is what I read:

Frus­tra­tion is not depres­sion. Frus­tra­tion draws the energy of the throat cen­ter down into the sacral cen­ter and depletes the man.

New Dimen­sions in Heal­ing, Torkom Saray­dar­ian, p. 494

No won­der I felt exhausted and suf­fered from a sore throat!

In the chap­ter, Cre­at­ing Iden­tity, I found the anti­dote to my recent frus­tra­tions by tak­ing it out of the emo­tional level and rais­ing it to the higher mind where I could look at it, destroy it and release it.

This is a supreme method of dis-identifying with your not-Self which all the great Teach­ers of the Age­less Wis­dom taught.

Here are the steps:

1. Relax.

2. Take a few deep breaths.

3. Close your eyes and think about “frus­tra­tion” or any emo­tion you are hav­ing trou­ble with.

4. Try to visu­al­ize “frus­tra­tion” in your emo­tional nature and make a sym­bol of your “frustration.”

5. Visu­al­ize your True Self, located one foot above your head, as a sphere of light.

6. Visu­al­ize a fiery beam of light directed toward the sym­bol which rep­re­sents the emo­tion that is caus­ing you prob­lems. See it burned up and com­pletely gone.

It’s pos­si­ble that after your sym­bol has been destroyed, it may return, depend­ing on how deep the emo­tion is. Again direct the fiery light, and burn it until the image is cleared away.

When I did this exer­cise, I felt men­tal clar­ity and peace. I over­came my ten­dency to respond  aggres­sively and in haste.

I hope you can see from this small exam­ple how impor­tant it is to cre­ate inner peace and how by address­ing our inner tur­moil or obsta­cles will lead us on the path of right human relations.

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Open Letter to Mother Earth

by Kim Coggin on April 20, 2010

in Broadening of Consciousness

Dear Earth,

Hey, it’s me. I know we haven’t talked in a while. You know how it is. Run­ning this way and that, try­ing to save you and for­get­ting you at the same time. The hours just get away from me; turn to days, weeks, months, sea­sons, and what­ever the rea­sons, I have for­got­ten you.

Today, I remem­ber. I look for­ward to your Big Day; it’s only a few days from now. Are you excited? Hope­fully, this year will be that B-Earthday you have been wish­ing for, and there will be a birth of new envi­ron­men­tally pro­gres­sive IDEAS and ACTIONS that go into our COLLECTIVE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. I know, I know. You thought last year was going to be your B-Earthday… and the year before, and the year before, and the year before… I really feel good about this year, though, old friend… really.

No mat­ter what, I just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for SURVIVING and still cre­at­ing BEAUTY for us every day. I know that it must hurt you so badly to have your lush green rain forests stripped and raped for land. I know you mourn the polar bears that find their graves in the frozen-ice-water-oceans ris­ing from your melt­ing poles, and all the other ani­mal souls who have died with more respect for you than most of Mankind. I am so sorry that we have all been so BLIND.

Today, I just wanted to drop you a lit­tle note to tell you that I was think­ing about you yes­ter­day, star­ing at the reflec­tions and still­ness on a sun­set lake, and lis­ten­ing to the sway of the oak tree’s leaves bend­ing in the breeze. I love those lit­tle moments we share, where silence fills the air, and I am all of a sud­den inspired by the cre­ative fire of your beauty, and the only way to do you jus­tice is to sing your song in poetry. Those moments keep me going day by day; the soli­tude and seren­ity of breath­ing a breath with you, inhal­ing and exhal­ing Earth whis­pers, this is how I pray.

I have con­tem­plated my life’s pur­pose under the over-arching arms of your sky, and thanked you for renewal and sec­ond chances, while watch­ing a sin­gle leaf fall, out of the cor­ner of my eye. I have kissed lovers on your grass, and planted seeds of HOPE in your open heart. I have cleansed my soul in the expanse of your waters, and when I was lost, Earth… you were my mother and my father. You have always been there to HOLD me and sur­round me in you, but I ask this, my friend, who is hold­ing YOU?

From this day for­ward, I solemnly swear, that I will not smell the flow­ers or breathe the fresh air with­out first giv­ing THANKS to YOU for all the LIFE that you bear. The truth is, this Earth Day should be the New Holy Day, because if we TREAT YOU AS IF YOU ARE SACRED, maybe we will be someday.

For all that you DO, for all that you ARE, for your hopes that REDEMPTION is not too far, for your con­stant REGENERATION and Ever REBIRTH, my dear friend, I thank you, beau­ti­ful pre­cious Earth.

Eter­nally yours,

~ Kai

Kai, for­merly known as Kim Cog­gin, is a poet and writer. She taught Eng­lish at Houston’s Alief Tay­lor High School for five years. Read more of her mus­ings at her blog.

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