{"id":24397,"date":"2017-04-04T21:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/en\/?p=24397"},"modified":"2017-04-06T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:31:05","slug":"you-piss-me-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/2017\/04\/you-piss-me-off\/","title":{"rendered":"You Piss  Me Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hahahahah, this title is written with the font arial 80 and blinks of course! Because today I would like to talk to you about ANGER! Rhaaaaaaa!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A subject which finally XXXX this blog for the past year, because if recap:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">I only admitted to myself last year that there was some anger in me (at 38 years old)(38 years of blindeness!)(pffff)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">It was during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/2016\/02\/tight-eyez\/\">a dance class with the founder of Krump, Tight Eyez<\/a>.. 2 years earlier!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">I then read Jerry\u2019s book (oh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/2016\/09\/jerry-hyde-a-rock-n-roll-therapist\/\">my Jerry<\/a>!) whose chapter about the Dark Side challenged me so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <span class=\"s1\">Then the lecture on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/2016\/06\/spinoza\/\">Spinoza<\/a> and his necessity to know your inner demons if you don\u2019t want to be their first victims<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">And this obvious expression from\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/2016\/03\/melissa-unger-the-good-and-the-whole\/\" target=\"_blank\">do you want to be good or whole<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <span class=\"s1\">We then played with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/2016\/11\/beaute-ne-me-sauvera-toujours-pas-ma-colere-peut-etre\/\">Trump<\/a>\u2019s arrival to power play \u201cthis is so me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Eh..ah yeah that adds up at the end. Actually it\u2019s MY subject of the moment and actually\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"s1\">I have decided to practice anger.\u00a0 I mean \u201cmy\u201d anger\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and in fact\u2026 it&#8217;s ok!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Boys don&#8217;t cry&#8230; Girls can&#8217;t be angry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So manifestly, I am helped for that, since Jerry has been anger\u2026 teacher HAHAHAHA naaaannn???? Yessssss! I swear, he performed seminars and retreats, etc. around the anger theme.\u00a0 We talked about vulnerability and about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/2017\/03\/daring-vulnerability\/\">our huge difficulty to allow ourselves to be vulnerable<\/a>.\u00a0 By shame.\u00a0 And that this shame is societally organized by gender.\u00a0 Men must always be strong and women always even, beautiful and mostly always effortless.\u00a0 So boy\u2019s don\u2019t cry, girls can\u2019t be angry!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Jerry tells me that during very simple exercices like \u201cyou are set in in a closed room with a baseball bat and pillows&#8221; men have no problem beating, while women will start sobbing at the idea of holding a bat in their hands.\u00a0 TO GET ANGRY FOR A WOMEN IS SIMPLY FORBIDDEN!\u00a0 And I find it important that each of us can understand how society activates with him\/her in a involuntary manner, but very cunningly and probing (we soon talk about ordinary racism, of misogyny, of spanking\u2026).\u00a0 The image of an angry man is scary, an angry women is made fun of.\u00a0 <strong>To forbid anger is a very effective submissive tool.<\/strong>\u00a0 Feminists rise up\u2026in anger!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24354 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua5_600.gif\" alt=\"mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua5_600\" width=\"472\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><b>Usefulness of anger.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Still according to Jerry, someone who is never angry (like me)(before), it\u2019s a house with the door and window permanently open: it\u2019s dangerous!\u00a0 Because you let a whole bunch of toxic things get in, without noticing them for what they are.\u00a0 Someone anastrophic (the opposite of catastrophic) is putting themselves in danger without being aware of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s a&#8230; child (carebear type)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So there once again, I talk to the little girl whom you might have difficulty letting go because the anger (I mean the adult anger) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/2017\/02\/future-ex-perfectionniste\/\">is the end of perfection<\/a>. It\u2019s all of a sudden to head toward your &#8220;whole&#8221; and no longer your &#8220;good.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sTZjAlV-v2w\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><b>The practice of anger.\u00a0 Part one. Recognizing it.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Okay, so anger is like fear, it has a purpose but it can be devastating. This is why you don\u2019t go there.\u00a0 But the other day I receive a notification from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/2014\/10\/peace-love-and-headspace\/\">headspace<\/a> saying: if you never commit to feeling judged negative how can you understand them?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We all have buttons, levers, which once somehow activated can trigger anger that can be unmanageable.\u00a0 Unmanageable either because they go way too far, or because they get directly shoved under the rug: we don\u2019t manage it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So the first step for me I think was to accept: well yes I have an anger issue. Then I let it activate itself (not necessarily expressing itself to the other, but at least to be present inside me).\u00a0 Like there was a few people in me: \u00a0<strong>the angry person and the one observing the situation.<\/strong>\u00a0 Within a year I was able to put my finger on those famous buttons.\u00a0 Therefore for me what drives me nuts (I am not saying this is good)(or bad), IT IS WHAT IT IS, well yes for the 3 majors drive of my anger are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&gt;Contempt<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&gt;The perception of ungratefulness from the other<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&gt;The feeling that the other wants me for himself without taking in consideration who I am and what I desire.\u00a0 In short being objectified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">These are all perceptions, we are okay, right? But for me it\u2019s huge, it\u2019s absolutelly huge to be able to pinpoint them.\u00a0 And I invite to do the same for yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I also understood that my angers are explosive.\u00a0 It erupts, it possesses me if I don\u2019t evacuate them.\u00a0 Other people are cold and collected in their anger.\u00a0 Others find refuge in addictive attitudes (beauty, drugs etc\u2026).\u00a0 There again it\u2019s up to you to observe yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><b>The practice of anger.\u00a0 Part two. Express it<\/b><\/span><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua3_600.jpg\" alt=\"mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua3_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua3_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua3_600-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ai Wei Wei and his\u00a0&#8220;studies of perspective&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some people are using their anger very well. Because <strong>it\u2019s an absolutely incredible energy flux and if they happen to be able to mount it, well damn that can become very beautiful<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I think of a few artists, we already talked about Tight Eyez for whom it\u2019s very conscious, but you also have people like Maiwen, she is fully angry, isn\u2019t she?\u00a0 Ai Wei Wei as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They must be awful to live with, but for the world, they are channeling this anger.\u00a0 And I find this great. Then of course militants.\u00a0 Without anger, there will always be people like Fillon to steal AND to complain about how his being treated \u00a0(ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!), racist killer cops (what!? Can\u2019t say negro casually anymore?!), young or old rapist who ask for a light punishment to preserve their future, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You need some anger to stop hate and injustice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua4_600.jpg\" alt=\"mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua4_600\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua4_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua4_600-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jerry has at home some images of the <strong>goddess Kali<\/strong>.\u00a0 She is furious, tongue out, wears a skull necklace and shows the decapited head of her last victim.\u00a0 She is the goddess of destruction\u2026 and creation.\u00a0 And what that she destroys?\u00a0 Ignorance and stupidity.\u00a0 I am not quite at the level where I would worship her, but I think it certainly widely opens some perspectives.\u00a0 Good or whole?!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So evidently, with the man I have, it\u2019s \u201ceasy\u201d to get angry.\u00a0 Easy not in the way where I have a lot of reasons be angry all the time but because all the right conditions are met to tell me: \u00a0<strong>go ahead you are entitled to it<\/strong>, you can my darling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So I allow myself to express my anger in a lot of different situations: going from \u201cyou are really exaggerating\u201d to \u201cyou tell me\/don\u2019t ever do this again\u201d or also in situations where <strong>you maintain a constructive dialogue<\/strong>, all the while stating \u201cI am warning you that I am angry, I would like to find a solution together and I believe in it hence why we are talking together but please understand that I am currently angry.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>And more often than not people are very receptive and understanding<\/strong>.\u00a0 That surprised me.\u00a0 So I went further: \u00a0I forced myself to express my anger systematically.\u00a0 Well holly molly, I saw all that I was never expressing until then\u2026 it&#8217;s staggering!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But <strong>it also feel good to show who you are right at the moment<\/strong>, up to to the other side to be welcoming or not, to understand or not, that there is a dialogue, always a listening ear.\u00a0 <strong>You must also accept that your truth might not be manageable for the other side<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In this case I talk about situations where the matter stays safely confined to a situation or given act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We can go deeper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>5.<span class=\"s1\"><b>The practice of anger.\u00a0 Part three.\u00a0 Lose yourself in it (optional).<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24358 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua6_600.gif\" alt=\"mais_tu_me_fais_chier_mai_hua6_600\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So there, about two weeks ago (yes that\u2019s why I can\u2019t get myself to write since then\u2026 it takes time to digest), for the very first time I was able to explode, cry, scream and smash it all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>And right there is like a trip<\/strong>, I spit it all out ( damn it\u2019s so hard for me), they listen, they agree (yes, it\u2019s true you are right), and they ask for more, more and more.\u00a0 And I go deeper and deeper, always deeper, and then I drift, I am entitled to it and I drift some more, I don\u2019t think it lasted long but still, I keep drifting until I turn around and I realize that I am alone.\u00a0 I find myself on the other side of the bank.\u00a0 You know the bank of the famous \u201c<strong>I hate you, all you bunch of motherfuckers<\/strong>\u201d and I see that I am still entitled but that I am alone because I went too far, within me in my anger, but I was entitled to it.\u00a0 And now I can get back on my barge, calmed and come back.\u00a0 Because I am entitled and that they are waiting for me on the other side and they tell me : \u00a0We understand you.\u00a0 And I am sorry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There you breakdown in tears, because anger as Aurelie use to tell me talking about her Garry, it\u2019s an emotion of substitution.\u00a0 It\u2019s a door toward an immense grief, then something else will come out of it and once this door will be reached and opened all your sorrow will be able to come out.\u00a0 I swear it makes you feel so good.\u00a0 And better be, whenever it\u2019s possible, go see for yourself instead of blowing up in unfitting situations ( oops, your best friend&#8217;s wedding where you got into a fight \u201cbecause you were so drunk\u201d), \u00a0or simply unfair (oops, your kid or your relationship gets the brunt of it), etc, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>cons\u00e9quences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bah, life is richer, but also more complex.\u00a0 It\u2019s the famous amp button: \u00a0<strong>you turn the dial of all your emotions louder or lower<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s therefore a life choice, but for me who is always seeking for this exploration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/2016\/01\/de-lintime-2\/\">intimate<\/a>, well it makes sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And it\u2019s less comfortable to announce no matter what, it\u2019s okay, life is beautiful, while this is not always possible for yourself and evidently as well as for the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also, we aren\u2019t compelled to welcome anger spouts from the other, but it\u2019s a wall that we can climb together too and with welcoming it, this becomes a fun adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Then sometimes I have to tell you, at the end of the journey on the barge, you not only find the calm after emptying your emotional luggage (which is already huge in itself) but there can also be some kind of reparation, because it\u2019s only after this journey that you can see clearer between the event that got you angry and a whole lot of other affairs\u2026 which become your responsibility to sort out and there is not only healing and repairs (which is even bigger), <strong>there is gratitude and always caring<\/strong> and sometimes to find them it\u2019s not exactly a straight line and absolutely no short cut.\u00a0 It requires this journey, so there you go, I hope this post will help you on your own journey.\u00a0 In my case I am about to turn forty year old in a few days, and I am doing some spring cleaning before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cheers !<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hahahahah, this title is written with the font arial 80 and blinks of course! Because today I would like to talk to you about ANGER! Rhaaaaaaa! A subject which finally XXXX this blog for the past year, because if recap: &gt;\u00a0I only admitted to myself last year that there was some anger in me (at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/2017\/04\/you-piss-me-off\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Piss  Me Off<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1169,1177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary-en","category-mai-journey"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24401,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397\/revisions\/24401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}