Rage and Courage

The Fire That Sets Us Free

Anger gets a bad rap. We’re taught to fear it, suppress it, or let it rip through us unchecked. But anger—when we really meet it, when we really work with it—has the power to sharpen our vision, fuel our movement, and set us free.

This isn’t about mindless rage. It’s about the fire that clears away illusion. When we make contact with anger, we see. We see where we’ve compromised ourselves. We see the truth of our relationships. We see what we’ve been tolerating that we no longer should. Anger is the spark that lights up our blind spots, forcing us to acknowledge what’s been hidden in the dark.

Anger moves. It rises up through the body, through the muscles, through the bones, pushing us to act. The liver, the seat of anger, is also the seat of vision—both literal and metaphorical. Without anger, we stagnate. We freeze. We stay stuck in patterns that no longer serve us. Healing helps us reclaim our relationship with anger—not as something to be feared, but as something to be wielded. When we make peace with it, anger becomes a force of precision, of movement, of direction.

The Bhagavad Gita speaks of righteous anger, the fire that compels warriors to stand against oppression. This is sacred rage—the kind that refuses to stay silent in the face of harm. But we can’t access it if we’re afraid of our own fire. When anger is ignored, it turns inward, feeding depression, anxiety, exhaustion. When it’s left unchecked, it erupts, burning everything in its path. Healing gives us another way. It teaches us to make friends with our anger. To hold it. To listen to it. To let it guide us instead of destroy us.

Rage and courage go hand in hand. They are the flames that light the way forward. The question isn’t whether we feel them—it’s whether we are willing to use them wisely. Healing gives us that choice.