another blog entry from Brad Wolgamott:
was thinking hard about what to share with you all today and i had this message press on my heart. we have all heard analogies of oposite words and the reactions of those words and i asked myself what would be the oposite of anger. my first thought was happy and then love but the word that kept pressing on my heart was humility. i thought this was odd but the more i thought about it the more it made sense. most anger is selfish. its a reaction to something that has happened to us. and often in this rage we miss the message behind the lesson. so humility hit me like a ton of bricks. if we can train ourselves to counter anger with humility then we can always come out of every painful situation wiser. if we can train ourselves to ask what did i posibly do to provoke or extend this anger. the other option is to remind ourselves to replace revenge or spite with a hunger to learn from the situation. we can remind ourselves to never treat someone that way and we can train ourselves to learn a valuable lesson to help others avoid problems like this in the future. so if we make our reflex action from anger into humility and ask ourselves to truly introspect ourselves and harness the value of the experience we will become a richer more valuable person in the world of adding value to all mankind.