08-03-2016, 06:52 AM
Dovetailing with what Aion said, I would agree that there are dangers inherent to simply trying to deny or ignore darker impulses inside yourself. That easily leads to outright repression, and that's a very unstable situation. The more desires are 'bottled up' within someone, the more likely they are to explode one day like a badly-manufactured soda can the moment a person gets a bit shaken.
The hard part is grappling with those feelings without having guilt, self-recrimination, or other feelings which would ultimately prevent self-acceptance. Those are feelings that re-enforce negativity. In a worse-case scenario, it becomes a self-perpetuating negative spiral. A person has angry thoughts, which causes them to dislike themselves for thinking these things, which causes more angry thoughts, etc etc.
The trick, at least as I see it, is in understanding that EVERYONE has something of a darker side. Some have it more than others, but I honestly don't think it's possible to live life on Earth without at least a little negativity soaking in. After all, even Jesus\Yeshua had at least one instance of flat-out losing his temper! (ie, the moneychangers at the temple)
And I figure if the big J.C. couldn't keep his cool 100% of the time, the rest of us are off the hook.
So I'd also suggest you look for ways to explore these feelings in a non-harmful way which will have as little karmic impact as possible. Like, just in my own case, whenever I'm really upset at the world, I'll boot up a Grand Theft Auto game and go engage in pretend mayhem for awhile. Killing video game characters is about as harmless as a 3D act can be, and after half an hour of it, I'm feeling better and have more "room" in myself for positive energies since I've burned off the negative energy.
If you can find a similar outlet for your darker urges, I also suspect you'll feel better -and more positive- once you work through them a bit. And then, as Aion suggested, you can look at yourself in a positive manner as you engage in self-examination.
The hard part is grappling with those feelings without having guilt, self-recrimination, or other feelings which would ultimately prevent self-acceptance. Those are feelings that re-enforce negativity. In a worse-case scenario, it becomes a self-perpetuating negative spiral. A person has angry thoughts, which causes them to dislike themselves for thinking these things, which causes more angry thoughts, etc etc.
The trick, at least as I see it, is in understanding that EVERYONE has something of a darker side. Some have it more than others, but I honestly don't think it's possible to live life on Earth without at least a little negativity soaking in. After all, even Jesus\Yeshua had at least one instance of flat-out losing his temper! (ie, the moneychangers at the temple)
And I figure if the big J.C. couldn't keep his cool 100% of the time, the rest of us are off the hook.
So I'd also suggest you look for ways to explore these feelings in a non-harmful way which will have as little karmic impact as possible. Like, just in my own case, whenever I'm really upset at the world, I'll boot up a Grand Theft Auto game and go engage in pretend mayhem for awhile. Killing video game characters is about as harmless as a 3D act can be, and after half an hour of it, I'm feeling better and have more "room" in myself for positive energies since I've burned off the negative energy.
If you can find a similar outlet for your darker urges, I also suspect you'll feel better -and more positive- once you work through them a bit. And then, as Aion suggested, you can look at yourself in a positive manner as you engage in self-examination.
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