Anger

From Notes

"When you want to be angry, be angry. There is nothing wrong in being angry. If you want to laugh, laugh. There is nothing wrong in laughing loudly....Don't wear masks; otherwise you will create dysfunctions in your mechanism - blocks...A person who has been supressing anger, his jaw becomes blocked. All the anger comes up to the jaw and then stops there. His hands become ugly. They don't have the graceful movement of a dancer; that is because the anger flows into the fingers - and they become blocked. Remember, anger has two sources to be released from. One is teeth, another is fingers. All animals, when they are angry, will bite you with their teeth or they will start tearing at you with their hands. Therefore the nails and the teeth are the two points from which the anger is released.

I have a suspicion that whenever anger is suppressed for too long, people develop tooth trouble. Their teeth go wrong because too much energy is there and is never released. And anybody who suppresses anger will eat more; angry people will always eat more because their teeth need more exercise. Angry people will smoke more. Angry people will talk more; they can become obsessive talkers because, somehow, the jaw needs exercise so that the energy will be released a little bit.

...remember authenticity; always remain in the present, because all falseness enters either from the past or the future. That which has passed, has passed - don't bother about it...Be true to the present and then you will be authentic"

from "Body Mind Balancing - using your mind to heal your body" by Osho ISBN 0-312-33444-3