Resolving Feelings of Hate

How to Stop Hating Someone

I got this statement today from a person trying to sort out some feelings:

If we feel hate: it means that something or someone is actively diminishing us. We do feel bad when feeling hate, for the very reason that an active problem is present and it requires our attention to resolve! Hate is not an emotion to bottle up: to do so is very dangerous as it means you are bottling up an extremely negative process. Holding hate is something most people cannot do safely, and it quickly ends up re-projecting outward to then hurt those innocent around us.

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What is Hate?

Hate is a composite emotion.

It’s Judgement Directing Anger

A deeper part of the problem is that anger itself is another composite emotion that is often a mix consisting of frustration and survival.

With this information, it now becomes possible to work against hate from several different angles.  The high-level process is:  when feeling hate: it’s time to begin a process of release. Since hate is a composite emotion, you can focus on the sub-elements first rather than the entirety of hate. For most people to work on the final entangled feelings are too complicated, and it quickly becomes a process of spinning around the issues rather than dealing directly with the roots of the problem. By focusing on the individual sub-elements, you can quickly unravel the hate altogether.

• Release the judgments driving the feelings of anger.
• To move on with our own life without attachment to where our feelings of hate arise.
• Use Spiritual Jiu-jitsu to create different perspectives on your interpersonal interactions.
• Sometimes being compassionate is to walk away without saying anything. At times no answer is the best answer.
  
• Take the time to focus on releasing the anger itself.

As you work against each smaller problem, keep your awareness open so you can learn more about the nature of the feelings. As the process unfolds, you will get more information that you can further use to unravel the source of the hate. When an issue still keeps coming back, then fully release the source of the problem. With this awareness, you can spot the sub-elements feeding into the feelings of hate and more precisely work on your healing process.

Hate makes us want to fight, yet many times the fight is trying to stop the fight. That itself is a hard lesson, especially when the person who we might feel hate towards, actively clings back, inflicts pain on us, or is attacking us. If we walk away, we give no target to be attacked, and the fight ends. So the real lesson is to release fully.

Layers of Hate

Since hate is a composite of judgment and anger, many new side issues twist into existence with the hate. These issues are secondary problems to the real deeper issues at play. As a result, dealing with surface issues may do nothing in helping a person overcome hate. Remember to focus on any components based on judgments, feeling frustration or of anger.

For example often “hate” involves an imbalance in a relationship. What happens when some parts of the relationship help a person and other parts of the relationship are harmful? This would be the classic love/hate relationship.  Relationship inbalances usually evolve out from judgments twisting the relationship out of balance. Some examples

• Older judgments from previous relationships
• Abuse from the past
• Family issues from how we were raised by our parents

To initially only treat the imbalance, rather than the older issues, ironically will just keep the love/hate relationship spinning. Instead, it’s a question of how you resolve out the lower level judgment and anger that is undermining the relationship.

Understand hate is a powerful emotion, (powerful enough to destroy nations as WWII showed) Hate exists for a reason, it’s an unconscious reaction to lash out at what seems to be harming or diminishing us. Hate isn’t something to ignore, or you can hope will go away. Unfortunately, you need to actively work at releasing this poison when it’s found digging into your soul.

The true lesson to learn about hate isn’t to reflect that feeling of destruction back out, but instead to release judgments in a kind and gentle manner to grow from.

Releasing Hate

Many times the best way to be kind is to walk away without attachments and commitment, to leave as little behind for the reflection of hate to work against you. Sometimes others will push anger to conflict, and we have to be ready to deal with such conflict also.

It isn’t always easy to walk away from hate. However, due to the way humans mature, there are times when we’re energized to change. One example of this is a midlife crisis. At these moments, you have a limited window to push and make changes in your life. Don’t waste these key moments of life where we’re energized to change. Your window to change will only be present for 2 or 3 years. Understand, It takes empowerment to change; if you are in a situation where your power is being taken away, it is harder to walk away from hate. This sometimes means the first step to removing hate is empowering yourself and using your new power to drive away from the hate.

When encountering hate, examine the feelings surging in your core being. In smaller steps work to heal the damage, pain, anger, frustration, and judgments in play. If it isn’t possible to release the root aspects where the hate is stemming from, then release the full package by moving on with your life. The world is a vast place with many answers; you won’t help anyone stuck trying to fix a problem you aren’t in a position to resolve positively.

In other words, hate can never be held: release hate, or it destroys the heart where it resides. Keeping to this emotion, only leaves destruction. Hate is anger’s second to the last step in the march of personal destruction.

So when feeling pangs of hate, be acutely aware and work towards discovering release, Being human we all will have felt this emotion at some point in our life, But also find it’s a lesson in how to release towards a better life.

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For Professional Assistance Releasing Anger

Julie and I teach from a wide collection of tools that will help you find peace and release anger. Often addressing deeper truths require outside assistance to gain new angles that resolve out the internal conflict a person is holding. We teach you how to release judgments that hold you back and then flare up later in rage. We work with Taoist and shamanic tools that add in a grounded spiritual component to anger management.