I want to share with you one of the quickest and easiest ways to give yourself quantum leaps in your energy level and it hardly takes any time.

What is it? It involves releasing the heaviest and most destructive emotion that you carry around with you. You know what it is? Sadness? No. Depression? No. It is anger.

Anger that you carry around weighs you down and sucks the energy out of your life. I am continually amazed how many people, and even kids, carry around anger for so long that is just unnecessary.

For some of you reading this, there is something that a boss or a co-worker said to you a week ago that ticked you off and you are still mad about it. For others, there is something that a friend of yours did or said to you a year ago that you are literary still angry about it. There is some of you—and maybe you start to chuckle now—that something happened to you when you were 12, and if you are really honest with yourself, you will have to admit that you are still mad about it. And you know what? The person that did it to you probably does not even remember the incident.

Carrying around that particular brand of negative emotion is literally like trying to walk up a flight of stairs while carrying suitcases filled with led weights.

You have probably heard of the concept of emotional baggage. Anger is the heaviest emotional baggage that there is. So how do you get rid of if? I am going to give you a simple exercise. This is one that I had to do when I was involved in door-to-door sales.

How to Release Anger

1. Write down everything that has made you mad over the course of the past days, weeks, months or years. Write it on paper, not your computer. Look at it.

2. Tear up the piece of paper and physically watch it leave your presence. When I did this exercise, I would go to a rock, in the middle of a stream, throw it into the water and let it float away from me.

If you do not have a stream, you could take that paper and burn it. Or you could tare the paper into little pieces and then flush it down the toilet. The point is, make the paper physically leave your presence.

3. Say out loud, “I am letting that go.”

This might seems like a silly exercise, but I promise you it works. There is power in forgiveness. When you forgive somebody for a wrong they committed against you, you are the real winner.

Why are you the winner? Because carrying that anger around with you weighs heavily on your spirit. Like I mentioned, it is like walking up the stairs carrying 500 pounds on your back.

Imagine just being able to let that weight go and how much easier everything will be. Try to exercise it out. It is something that I have done with a lot of my coaching clients and it works.

Be Free!

Roger Seip
Instructor and Coach