“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
~ Mark Twain
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Today’s Inspiration ~ There are Options
“Overcome anger by love; overcome wrong by good; overcome the miserly by generosity, and the liar by truth.”
~ Buddha
A Better Life ~ Better to Release Pent Up Emotions
Letting someone know how we feel when we are angry allows us to vent, but it doesn’t do much else. Venting releases pent up emotion and piles it on to the receiver. It’s better to find an alternative way to let out emotions like running or walking. One could shower and belt out a song. We’re only limited by the level of commitment we have to seek an alternative.
Today’s Power Thought ~ A Love Centered Life
When one’s life is love centered, life is good, people are wonderful, and each moment is cherished. When one’s heart is filled with anger and hate, one is blind to the beautiful life in which they live.
What If . . .
What if one were to let every slight slip by like a piece of paper tossed about by the wind? Man, we humans can take the slightest remark we judge as a slight and turn it into a reason for a battle. Does it make sense to get upset over something one won’t remember in a short time? Let’s see what we get out of it. We kick our blood pressure up. We let it take control of our thoughts for the rest of the day. We may lose a friend. Hmmm. it doesn’t sound like much of a reward. If I blow off the remark, my blood pressure remains good, I’m thinking about better things in life, and maybe I can file a comment away that I can use in a piece of fiction I’m working on.
A Better Life ~ Channel Anger for Good
Getting angry is a normal human action. What we do with our anger is always a choice. We can use our anger to attack another. Or, we can direct our anger to take constructive action. Anger meant to harm or hurt is destructive. Anger channeled to alleviate suffering, improve life, or for personal change are better ways to harness this powerful emotion.
Something to Think About
I read a local online news story about a road rage incident. It seems both parties wanted to be in the intersection at the same time. This is not good. There was going to be a winner and a loser. Fortunately, there was no accident, but the parties from both vehicles stopped, got out and started screaming at each other. One of the parties drew a gun and threatened to kill the other party. The other party got back in car and hurriedly left but not before a bullet passed through the party’s rear and front window. Crazy, right? When we don’t have to win every race, or blame others for being at fault things usually work out. A simple wave and shrug of the shoulders by either party may have taken the heat out of this situation. Every event doesn’t have to be a battle.
Today’s Power Thought ~ Directing Our Anger
Angry? It’s a normal human emotion. It’s better to direct our anger toward problems where we work to develop successful solutions. Anger toward people creates defensiveness and is often counter productive.
Today’s Health Tip ~ How Anger Affects Our Health
Don’t Let Anger Control You
Are you easily angered, often upset or frequently consumed by fury – over who knows what? . . . Are you easily angered, often upset or frequently consumed by fury – over who knows what? Of course your blood isn’t literally boiling, but chronic anger could have a damaging impact on not only your relationships and personal life, but also your overall well-being. . . .The list of ways chronic anger can affect a person’s well-being – and even put the health of others in peril – is long, John Schinnerer, an anger management coach, says. “It’s been linked to obesity, low self-esteem, migraines, drug and alcohol addiction, depression, sexual performance problems, increased heart attack risk, lower-quality relationships, higher probability of abusing others emotionally or physically or both … higher blood pressure and stroke,” he notes. Chronic anger also leads to increased anxiety, insomnia, mental or brain fog and fatigue, Thaik says. And it can reduce the immune system’s ability to fend off threats, leading to an increased risk of infection, and even possibly cancer, she adds.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Anger
Anger
Charles Lamb
Anger in its time and place
May assume a kind of grace.
It must have some reason in it,
And not last beyond a minute.
If to further lengths it go,
It does into malice grow.
‘Tis the difference that we see
‘Twixt the serpent and the bee.
If the latter you provoke,
It inflicts a hasty stroke,
Puts you to some little pain,
But it never stings again.
Close in tufted bush or brake
Lurks the poison-swellëd snake
Nursing up his cherished wrath;
In the purlieux of his path,
In the cold, or in the warm,
Mean him good, or mean him harm,
Whensoever fate may bring you,
The vile snake will always sting you.
May assume a kind of grace.
It must have some reason in it,
And not last beyond a minute.
If to further lengths it go,
It does into malice grow.
‘Tis the difference that we see
‘Twixt the serpent and the bee.
If the latter you provoke,
It inflicts a hasty stroke,
Puts you to some little pain,
But it never stings again.
Close in tufted bush or brake
Lurks the poison-swellëd snake
Nursing up his cherished wrath;
In the purlieux of his path,
In the cold, or in the warm,
Mean him good, or mean him harm,
Whensoever fate may bring you,
The vile snake will always sting you.
