What You Should Do With Excess Anger

Of all the emotions we experience, I can't think of any more destructive and useless as anger. I don't know about you, but anger to me seems like a complete waste of time and accomplishes absolutely nothing useful. Anger, I suppose, has its place if you're being charged by a wild boar or there is a dangerous intruder in your house. In a healthy sense, anger is that protuberance of fear that gives us the courage to defend our life and smite whatever threat may be endangering us. But try as I might, I can't think of any other use for it except in sports like football. And that should aggressiveness, not really anger. Because anger is not calculated- aggression is.

You would think then that tribal peoples would be angry a lot more than urban people because they face a lot more threats to their lives. But this is not the case at all. Even warring tribes, which are common, seem quite mellow when not in battle. And in tribal people aggression is much more ritualized, not of control.

But amongst we so-called 'civilized' societies neurotic angry is so common and rampant that we can say it is nothing short of an epidemic of mental illness. Everywhere you go in modern society you encounter anger. The day that goes by without encountering anger in some form or another is quiet rare.

Of course, it begs the question, 'Why are we so angry'? I don't have any sort of answer to that question but I do know this: anger is an extremely painful emotion that really makes me unhappy when experiencing it and given the choice, I'd like it out of my life. The truth is, I too experience angry nearly every day and don't know why. Oh sure, I can tell you during any given episode what it is that I'm angry at, and it might even seem legitimate but the fact is that my mind angrily goes over and over the same complaint again and again with no resolution. But I've made a lot of progress, I'm aware of my anger at least and physically I'm not all tied up in knots like I used to be. But I still treat it as an indulgence and don't know why. Watch your anger.

By: Dinah Jackson

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