It’s such a terrific book that I couldn’t resist writing more about it. Yesterday I was talking with friends at our book club meeting, and among the many interesting things we covered was a discussion of anger and its relationship to depression. Because we look at anger as a negative emotion, it was interesting to see how the Hicks’ book mentioned that anger is several steps up on the emotional vibration scale from depression. So, a person who suffers from depression would be moving in the right direction to become angry.

Of course, we also talked about how if someone is stuck at anger that it might not be such a positive sign (although, as the book points out, only the person feeling the emotion knows if it’s a good place for him or her). For those of you who have the book, check out page 119 – it covers the emotional upgrading system. So, when you check in with yourself, and you want something that feels better, you can get to a better-vibing spot.

The relationship between anger and depression seems to make sense, at least from my experience. A few years ago when I was in a particularly volatile relationship, I ended up in a particularly dark and gloomy spot emotionally. I didn’t really recognize it for what it was until after the fact, but I do know that when I finally found anger – beautiful, cleansing outrage – that things started to turn around for me. I got out, got better, got my self-respect back, and got on my path – all and all a good experience, but with some challenging moments along the way.

Gotta love life’s twists and turns….!

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