Anger Release - Learn How to Release Anger in a Healthy Way
Did you know that having an anger release method is extremely beneficial to your personal growth and feelings of inner peace?
That's right, it's perfectly OK for you to express the anger you're feeling.
I know you could be feeling anger about a variety of things going on in your life right now:
- Does your financial situation have you seeing red?
- Is there a problem in your relationship?
- Are you having issues with a co-worker?
- Do world events get you upset?
- Is there a family member causing you stress?
- etc, etc, etc...
Anger Release
It's OK to be Mad
One thing I've observed over my lifetime is how anger release has become more and more difficult in our society.
We're exposed to an amazing amount of violence, hate, and anger on our deadly TV boxes, yet when someone gets angry in "real life", people look at them as if there's something terribly wrong with them.
However, I feel that your anger needs a healthy release. Otherwise it festers inside of you and prevents inner peace from entering your life.
"Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I also feel our world has a lot of angry people in it simply because those people never meet it head on with a healthy dose of anger release.
"Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'Tis starving makes it fat." - Emily Dickinson
Anger Release
Make Sure it's Worth It
Let me stop right here, though, and warn you about letting "little stuff" consume you in anger. I'm not saying you should allow yourself to get angry at every petty little thing in your life. When someone cuts you off while driving, just let it go.
I have to admit, it takes a lot to get me mad. I give the people and situations in my life plenty of leeway in how I allow them to affect me.
I rarely allow myself to become intensely angry. Much of this comes from learning how to quiet my mind, which I've written about on my spiritual emergence page.
But I'm human and sometimes things get to be too much. When this happens, it's time for a little anger release.
Can you relate to this? I'm sure you can ;-)
Anger Release
Suggestions
"Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel." - Unknown
When you've been pushed too far, it's OK to be angry. However, it's important for you to release that anger in a healthy way.
I can only offer you anger release suggestions that work for me. They may or may not work for you. I suggest you give them a try and see what happens.
I find that either physical exertion or writing does wonders for me when I need to rid myself of anger. I'll go for a walk or a run. This gives me time to really think the situation through, while at the same time my body is using up that "angry energy".
"Always write angry letters to your enemies.
Never mail them." - James Fallows
Another method is to sit down and write out your angry feelings on paper. Many times, you'll discover that you've directed your anger at someone or something in error.
Most of our problems in life are solved as soon as we look in the mirror and realize that we hold the power to change what's causing us anger!
The key is to find a way to achieve anger release that works for you while keeping you from hurting those around you.
"Do not teach your children never to be angry;
teach them how to be angry." - Lyman Abbott
Feel it, get it out, then let it go.
Then forgive.
Change your life,
Matt
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