5 Ways to Release Anger
Published 2026-05-24
Anger can be a valuable emotion. It can stimulate change and lead to passionate, motivating thoughts on how to create it.
And it can inspire you and others to act.
From a spiritual perspective, anger can activate passionate energy in the Sacral Chakra, which stimulates creativity and connection.
From a law of attraction perspective, it can also show you what you really don’t want to experience, so you can get clear on what you’d like to experience instead.
However, prolonged anger has its downsides.
It can increase tension in your fcthoughts, emotions, and body, which can have both unpleasant physical and mental effects.
While I value anger and do believe it has a place in the range of human emotions, and that it serves a purpose, I don’t like being angry for long.
My body gets sore, my skin gets red, and my thoughts become unpleasant.
Quite frankly, I don’t enjoy the angry thoughts at all. I don’t like thinking unpleasant things about situations or the people in them.
Sometimes circumstances are just what they are, and the best thing you can do for yourself and the situation at hand is accept it and slowly bring yourself back to a state of emotional balance.
Anger is a regular emotion in energy work, so over the years The Spirit World has offered some ideas on how to transmute this type of energy.
Below are just a few tips to consider; take what works for you and leave the rest.
Let’s begin with covering several different ways to transform anger into new thoughts, ideas, and emotions.
1 - Disconnect from the source of your anger
Sometimes when you get angry, it is because something outside of yourself triggered the emotion of rage within you.
Rage is a form of intense anger and it can be useful — the Fae realm has referred to it as unbridled passionate energy, which is a nice way to put it.
They often suggest donating the energy to creative pursuits, but to do that first, identify what or who that triggering source is, and temporarily disconnect from it.
Go to another room, change the channel, put on headphones, or call your energy back to you by visualizing the energy in this situation or person returning to you.
Whatever you can do to give yourself a timeout from the source of the anger, do it.
2 - Balance it with cool blue energy
Typically, angry, irritable energy looks like red spikes on the outside of the energy field when I am asked to do a reading on it.
Most people can intuitively feel how it energetically presents and they describe it as “feeling edgy.”
Having many edges, or spikes, is exactly how it appears energetically.
Sometimes this energy is projected onto you from elsewhere — meaning you have absorbed angry energies from others, or others have energetically directed hostility toward you.
Whether the anger is yours or projected from others may be irrelevant — it’s in your energy field now, so it needs to be addressed.
The way you balance red, spiky energy in the field is by matching it with cooling waves of blue or aqua light.
Take a moment to rinse yourself in water, put a cool wet towel on the back of your neck, or visualize cool, blue aquatic light rinsing over your field.
You could also wear aqua blue crystals or clothing, or go to a watery spot and just sit there for a minute.
3 - Calm your energy before you speak
When you’re angry, it’s tempting to release the energy and energetically send it elsewhere.
“Venting” may feel like relief in the moment, but all you’ve done is hand the emotions to someone else to handle.
Instead, consider internally transmuting your anger first through meditation.
Visualize all your angry thoughts and emotions condensing into a blue dot in your mind.
Imagine all of the energy, thoughts, and emotions from all over your body spiraling into a spinning blue ball of light right behind your mind’s eye.
Now imagine this blue light filled with energy, becoming very bright. It floats out of your mind, off into space, traveling far, far away until it becomes just a twinkle in the galaxy.
Once you do this, journal anything that remains.
4 - See the value in anger’s ability to create change
Think of anger as a storm moving through your mind and body.
Storms pass. The chaos they bring can clear out the old and make way for new beginnings.
Consider a thunderstorm, for example.
It brings down old branches and trees while adding moisture to the soil. This fresh organic material and water stimulate new growth.
When you are really mad, ask yourself: what new action is this moving me to take?
You may not get an answer right away, but after the storm passes, the clarity is usually waiting for you.
5 - Accept life’s circumstances as they are
In some cases, anger comes from resistance to life’s circumstances.
You could be angry about things that happened, things that didn’t happen, things happening or not happening now, or things that could or could not happen in the future.
Many times, it is best to simply accept the moment as it is. This is what is happening.
Maybe there is nothing inherently good or bad about it, and you can take a neutral stance.
Maybe something unpleasant is occurring, and even if it changes life forever, this moment will pass and you may eventually come to appreciate parts of your new way of life.
You could take the stance that time will tell, and all things are temporary.
Or perhaps you can look for 10 things about the moment that you do like and anchor your thoughts there.
Either way, sometimes you can release anger simply by accepting what is.
One thing I like most about accepting what is: once you accept life as it is, you can more easily adapt to it so you can thrive in the new conditions, whatever they may be.
When you resist accepting life as it comes, it can sometimes create denial, preventing you from acting on and adjusting to new circumstances that need your attention.
All in all, anger has its purposes for coming into your life. If you have felt angry, there is nothing wrong with you or your spiritual practice.
You haven’t failed at being a loving human being. If anything, getting angry sometimes is proof that you do care.
It’s a normal human emotion that has its place and reason.
It’s okay to sit with it, feel it, and then shift out of the emotion when you are ready.
The tips above have been recommended in my intuitive energy work practice time and time again as useful ways to rebalance your inner state when you are energetically out of balance.
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