ANGER MANAGEMENT — How to Handle Frustrating Outbursts?
Angry outbursts can happen to anyone from time to time; it’s human nature, and given the range of violence and injustice raging throughout the world, sadly we are more susceptible to this emotional state than ever before. However, when it becomes out of control and unstoppable, anger becomes a destructive behavior, one that damages and destroys, relationships, health and even our earth.
Anger can show up and invite herself anywhere she likes. Stress and frustration are her closest allies but she also watches you as you, irritably fail to open a can of soup, feel incompetent in the face of your uncompleted project, and when someone points out the faults in your character. Anger always stays for dessert, she licks her spoon as you don’t feel good enough.
Does Anger dine with you? Do you frequently get furious? Are you involved in fights and arguments? Are angry thoughts constantly in your mind? Is there something that happened in the past that causes you to lash out in the present? Yes? Then you could have an anger problem that could negatively affect your life and it is time to deal with it.
Some people ‘need’ to be in a constant state of anger and all that comes with it or else they don’t feel they are functioning properly. By contrast, denying angry feelings leads to suffering and self pity which…
