Painful emotions are maintained though the process of thinking about them. We continually regenerate our painful emotions by intellectualising about them – rather than experiencing them at the non-conceptual level. The only way out is to let awareness find itself in the dimension of whatever emotion has arisen; and to experience it purely. When we are able to let go of justification we are no longer as involved in maintaining the integrity of our self-image. When this neurotic involvement is reduced, the energy of anger is no longer coloured by the need to prove our existence through the manifestation of aggression.p145, Spectrum of Ecstasy, Ngakpa Chögyam with Khandro Déchen, Aro Books, 1997, ISBN 0-9653948-0-8