{"id":502,"date":"2014-02-19T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:15:12","slug":"consciously-choose-to-remove-anger-and-fear-from-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/consciously-choose-to-remove-anger-and-fear-from-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"I consciously choose to remove anger and fear from my life…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My friend Bethany Hegedus <\/a>wrote an amazing picture book about a grandfather, family and the search for peace.\u00a0 Reading Grandfather Ghandi<\/em> <\/a>reminded me that my own life is often lived in a whirlwind of activity and movement from one thing to another, coupled with the strangely engulfing fear that I’m losing something. But what? I worry that I’m losing time to write even when I’m writing. More important, I fear I’m so busy I’m losing the chance to connect to friends and family. And they might be losing the same.<\/p>\n

The whole cycle of being too busy to live fully in the moment turns anxiety to anger and fear. I don’t like how I act when I’m in that space. I need to change it.<\/p>\n

For instance, this morning, I woke up aware that I still haven’t resolved a recent telephone conversation with my daughter in which I was super-crabby, sitting with my shoulder wrapped in ice, hating that I hurt, and wishing my daughter were with me rather than 6 hours away. I took it out on her by being wickedly critical of everything and everyone. I was far from peaceful and far from feeling the light of my life. I imagine it made her feel she was in the dark corner with me. So, this morning, when I saw this pledge on facebook, I decided I’d take it. Then I’d share it. But I also want to take this opportunity to publically apologize for allowing myself to be caught up in the busy-ness of life rather than the light of conscious being. Here’s the pledge to live your life as light in case you want to join me — and now I’m going to call my daughter and tell her I love her.<\/p>\n

The \u201cLive Your Life as Light\u201d Pledge<\/p>\n

I pledge to lis<\/em>ten to my anger, to see what it has to teach me.<\/em><\/p>\n

I pledge to not bully or cause harm, with words or with weapons.<\/em><\/p>\n

I pledge to look for the light, to see it in every situation.<\/em><\/p>\n

I pledge to find my own unique tools and talents.<\/em><\/p>\n

I pledge to forgive myself and others. I pledge to live my life as light.<\/em><\/p>\n

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            My friend Bethany Hegedus wrote an amazing picture book about a grandfather, family and the search for peace.\u00a0 Reading Grandfather Ghandi reminded me that my own life is often lived in a whirlwind of activity and movement from one thing to another, coupled with the strangely engulfing fear that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[113,94,112,34,110,108,111,109],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bethany-hegedus","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-childrens-literature-network","tag-family","tag-ghandi","tag-light","tag-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}