Anger The Most Useless Emotion

Of all of the emotions we humans are prone to, I believe that anger is the most useless. It is dangerous to your health; anger can increase blood pressure to alarming levels and it dumps massive amounts of adrenaline into your system which reeks havoc with all parts of your system. Anger hurts people, either physically or emotionally and these hurts can lead to devastating repercussions in your life. Divorce, fights, murders all of these and many other outcomes have their roots in the emotional state of anger.
To avoid those outcomes, here are some things you can do to reign in your anger.

1.) Take a Break and Get a Grip;
Take a time out. Relax and visualize yourself as calm. Take a deep breath. Visualize the breath you take in as calming white light, flowing into your mouth and radiating throughout all of your body. As you exhale visualize expelling all of your anger as a blackness coming out of your mouth.
While doing these deep breathing exercises, begin thinking about your favorite place in the entire world. A beach, garden, mountain side, any of these will do the trick. Put yourself into the picture and take it all in. Be there in as many ways as you can think of. Feel the temperature and the breeze if you can. Smell the flowers fragrance; see all of the colors in your mind. If your place is a beach, listen to the waves and the gulls. Smell the salt air. Feel the sand beneath your feet and the sun on your skin.
2.) Your Safety Valve;
Do something that is physically tiring. Exercise or running will do the trick. Work at it until you can’t do it any more. Find something you can’t hurt and beat it up. Don’t hit the wall, you’ll only have to repair it later and you will be angry at your stupidity. A boxers speed bag or heavy bag will do fine. Hit the bag as hard as you can as fast as you can as many times as it takes to get the anger out.
3.) Turn Away;
One of the simplest things you can do may be the hardest. Turn away from what ever it is that is making you angry. It’s easy to say to do this but it isn’t always so simple to do, so you have to really take control to do this one. What ever it is or who it is, just turn away and get as far away as you can from what ever provocateur is causing you grief. The last thing you want to do is get physical. Somebody will end up getting hurt and it might just be you. If you are in a public place you have to consider that a fight will draw the police and then there are they’re consequences to deal with.
4.) Make a Noise;
If you won’t get into trouble, yell at the top of your lungs. Scream until your voice gives out. You will be surprised how much tension screaming at the top of your voice can blow off. More over even if you’re in public the most you should expect from anybody around you is a strange look. Like “what the frick is wrong with that guy” Even if the cops are around the most they can do is ask you if you’re alright and maybe ask you to cool your jets. As far as I know there are no laws about not screaming at the top of your lungs in public.
5.) Forgive and Forget;
This one is maybe the hardest. Believe me when I say that forgiving is the easier of the two. It may even be that to forget may not be advisable at all. This depends on the situation. I have my own demons that I carry around with me just to remind me that I should not allow certain situations to develop. This can be your shield against becoming involved with those things that can set you off.
6.) If you’re lucky, you have a circle of family and friends to whom you can turn when something sets you off. Call them your sob shoulders if you like. How ever you wish to refer to them, calling on them at a time of great stress can give you a different perspective on a situation. It is often the case that cooler heads can prevail when you are to angry to make rational decisions.
In my youth and even into my middle years I was not known as an ever tempered person. I had the size and talent to take on nearly any one who got in my way. This had its benefits in that it didn’t take long for word to get around that I was not to be taken lightly. On the other hand I had very few friends and life was pretty miserable.
7.) Music Sooths the Savage Beast;
It might sound simplistic it is true none the less. Some forms of music have the ability to calm. Studies have been conducted which have shown conclusively that 20 minutes of some composers music can sooth a warring spirit. I happen to like, Edvard Grieg or Claude Debussy, just to name a few.
8.) Talk to The Big Guy;
Allowing your anger to get the better of you can profoundly effect your life. Many individuals are presently wasting away in prisons not to mention the death rows all over the world because their anger drove them to acts of regrettable consequence.
I don’t consider myself to be a religious person but many have been the time, I asked God to guide me through the quagmire I found myself in. Praying has a way of letting our better self take control bring peace to a troubled soul.

We all have a monster living within our selves. It is treacherous, unfaithful, double-crossing and untrustworthy. Its name is anger and these are only 8 ways to deal with it. I hope you can find more ways to put this beast in check before it gets the chance to put you in checkmate.

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