WHEN to use:
When your temper begins to flare.
WHAT does it do:
Mentally challenge yourself before taking out your anger
angry in some ways can be a positive outlet and something that should not be ignored.
angry in some ways can be a positive outlet and something that should not be ignored.
- However, having rage inside that results in harmful tendencies towards yourself or otherpeople, and from which the source is painful experience, is not healthy at all. This type ofanger should be dealt with before it escalates into more negative experiences.Designed for your protection and safety, anger/rage is ultimately your friend and closeally. But until you can accept this kind of feeling as a part of your being, you will tend tobe at war with the emotion of anger as well as yourself. You must first understand thatanger is a protective emotion and then consider the ways in which anger can be usefuland positive to you.
Because anger or rage springs immediately from pain and fear, and then ultimately love,you must be careful that this anger is not disconnected from other basic emotions. This iswhen it becomes dangerous. Once you overstep that boundary of caring for your feelingsor the feelings of another person, your anger has the power to instill pain, eitheremotional or physical.
On the other hand, if you can connect love for every angry feeling you get, anger tendsto dissolve and love and sense prevail. Below are four ways in which you can betterunderstand your anger:
1. Learn to recognize the relationship that exists between theemotions of anger, rage, fear, pain, and love.connection between all three and the mark of a healthy individual isone where that person can target the origin from which their emotionsof anger and stemming from. Is it fear? Is it pain? Or is the root causeof the anger stemming from love?There is an inherent
2. Learn to identify the vast differences between the actionsthat are motivated by fear and the actions that are motivatedby love.should be to immediately identify your feelings of anger and thefeelings of anger from other people and where they come from.Again, this is very similar to number one above. Your goal
3. Understand that having courage is a result of the anger-loveconnection.being anger with a loved one is a necessity in life, but only if thatcourage is connected with a positive intention.Having courage to face a problem that has resulted from
4. Begin to consider how anger shows up when it is felt andexpressed in conjunction with love.stay married for a long time have mastered this art. And it is theability to decipher and communicate through anger when dealing withthe person they are in love with. Learn to do this and you will find thatyou will attract more loving people into your life.
Turn the circumstances around to see how you would want to be treated if the other person felt as you do.
These mental gymnastics can help you regain control over runaway emotions before they escape and cause external damage.
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