ANGER AND HOW TO BETTER CONTROL IT

Are you one of those people who stop at stop signs or just pause and keep on going. Think of your anger as a car that needs to come to a complete stop if you are going to learn how to control it.

Hostility and heart attacks are bosom buddies. In short, if you don’t learn to control your anger you may well have less living time to have to worry about the problem.

More than one doctor will tell you that a few minutes of anger uses as much effort as a full day of work.

Remember, the day you are experiencing is a gift. Do you really want to ruin it with anger? You only have so many days and one of these days you will look back and think on all the days you ruined with your anger including, perhaps, the last day of your life.

What happens to your heart when you let anger take control? Your heart rate doubles. Your blood pressure almost doubles sometimes. You start using so much sugar you no longer have enough in your body and may began to shake.

Remember also that your body doesn’t know you no longer have to go out and fight wild animals. Therefore, when you get angry, it acts like that is exactly what you are about to do. Now that you are in fighting mode your body releases body chemicals that accelerate coagulation. Good if you are going to have a fight and be cut. Bad if all it does is help you form a blood clot. You already know you don’t want anything that helps the formation of clots.

Now, and I will be dealing with various problems we all have on a regular basis… lets look at one solution (there are certainly others I will share in later articles) for handling anger or its possibility. It is called “reframing.”

What is that? Well, put a beautiful picture is an ugly frame and the whole experience changes. Same with our emotions. Call a problem a challenge and your attitude completely changes. If it is a problem you try to run from it or get angry at it. If it is a challenge, at least many of you accept the challenge and your whole demeanor changes. Whatever the irritant is hasn’t changed but you have put your thinking in a different frame and now your attitude has changed.

It has been said that two men looking out of prison bars do not necessarily see the same thing, one sees mud and the other sees stars.

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