Every week my Indigo son calls me to discuss something he is angry about. Usually his anger has to do with an injustice that he or someone else has experienced and his anger is often justified. It makes him angry, for example, that people do not treat him, or each other, with respect. It makes him angry that he is judged, criticized and that his opinions are disregarded. He is often angry on behalf of others and that makes him angry too. My challenge to him is to take his anger to another level and to channel it into a useful outcome.

Indigos have often been called the 'angry generation' because they have a lot of anger. They are not content to accept the status quo and challenge everything about today's society. And they have a lot to challenge. But since they are young (and I'm talking about the Indigos who are currently in their teens and twenties) they are not always taken seriously. And they express their anger in ways that are not always constructive and often don't know how to move from anger into action.

The early Indigos protested against the Viet Nam war and politics. They wore their hair long, opted out of 'normal' society and did everything they could to live differently than their parents. Today's Indigo generation acts in much the same way but they don't always know how to channel their anger and often, their anger prevents them from being effective. They do not yet understand that anger is merely a first step in the process of change, that being angry and staying angry short circuits their ability to take steps to change what is generating their anger. Once they are angry, logic goes out the window and they become unreasonable and unresponsive and this can also lead to depression, a condition that many Indigos have.

Our challenge is to help our Indigo children channel their anger into something constructive, something that will make them feel that they are being effective in bringing about change. This is what they came to do and anger is just the first step in that process. They can become angry about things that others have taken for granted or felt powerless to change. Indigos have the energy to change things but first they must learn that their anger is how they respond to injustice. Their real power lies in how they can move past their anger and focus on what they can do to create change.

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