As you lean toward Me, your posture changes. All of your thoughts have a direction, and the direction of your thoughts affects your position in life and affects the positioning of your physical body.
You do know that your body does get affected. When you are joyous, so is your body. You may already glean that the words you use affect the balance of your body.
Your language affects you, the words you speak and also the national language you speak in. The language of your birth affects you and your thinking process.
In a way, your language affects you the way geography does. Born in hot or cold climate, you are affected. The air you breathe affects you.
The same seed planted in various lands takes on the habitat it grows in.
You, the essence of you, is always you. Yet influences in the world affect your individuality. Of course, they do.
There is nothing to resist here except any negative thinking that creeps into your mind and speech. Negativity is not lovely. It stops love from circulating. You have a responsibility to love, and any negativity that crosses your mind you are also responsible for. You are not an innocent victim of your thoughts. You don't have to be, that is. You are not chained to your thoughts. You can leave them at any time.
It is very important what you think and how you feel. When you find yourself in the midst of anger, for example, leave it like the plague. Leave your anger, beloveds. Do not keep revisiting it.
You who ask for good health must drop anger. It is too hot. It makes your blood boil, just as the language of words says. Anger can make your blood curdle. Why would anyone initiate anger, and why would anyone hold on to it. It hurts your heart, beloveds, and it hurts your stomach. It interferes with your well-being.
Whatever you may be irate about, no matter how righteous you are, you can't sustain the anger. The other person cannot. The world cannot.
You have a responsibility to yourself, to Me and to the world, to step away from anger. You were not made to harbor anger. That is why it is not good for you and, therefore, not good for anyone or anything at all.
I understand that, when you are in the throes of anger, you do not know how to drop it just like that. When you turn off the gas under boiling water, it still simmers for a while. Here's what I suggest: Adapt the idea that you do not have to boil the water. If you do not boil it to start with, then you won't have to turn it off.
So long as you continue the idea that you have every right to be angry, you will continue with anger. A new baobab of anger will crop up. You will find occasions for it. It is better for you to come from the proposition that anger is not honorable. Better to come from the proposition that it is not necessary. When you change your background of thinking, you will not rise to the occasion of anger.
Anger, no matter how justified in your eyes, no matter how justified in the world's eyes, no matter the seriousness of the offense, anger is a sport of the ego. No one has the right to inspire anger in you. Life does not have the right. This is not to be allowed. You may be absolutely right about the situation. What I am telling you, beloveds, is that you have no right to allow yourself to suffer anger.