Losing Your Anger
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In this topic, we will discuss about effects of being angry or anger. Anger can work toxin in you body. Hostile feelings are apt to harm your health. Hostility in the long run is a threat to health. Anger usually sends a wake-up call to a group of hypothalamic cells. These cells signal the adrenal gland to pump large doses of adrenaline and cortisol into the bloodstream. The adrenaline makes the heart pump harder and faster , which results in higher blood pressure. As the blood pressure rises, a patch of endothelial cells in an artery supplying the heart is eroded by the rapidity swirling currents of blood.
The adrenaline also stimulates fat cells to empty into the bloodstream. These cholesterol filled cells migrate to the damage artery. Over the course of years, they mature into an arteriosclerotic plaque that may block the flow of blood to the heart.
Immune system may be weaker in hostile people. Those with high hostility scores were at high risk of dying not only from coronary disease but from cancer as well. Adrenaline and cortisol may cause the immune system to go into a holding pattern.
Most of us get angry at times. Our bodies are equipped to handle emotional upheavals from time to time. The real harm comes as result of frequently recurring hostility.
ARE HOSTILE FEELINGS REVEALED IN NONVERBAL BODY LANGUAGE, AND IF SO IS THAT BEHAVIOUR HARMFUL TO GOOD HEALTH?
A knitted brow, disdainful tone, crossed arms, clench jaw, smug expression and rigid muscles can convey anger as effectively as words. Whether the anger is hidden or openly expressed, the damage is the same. Hostile people are more prone to engage in risky behavior, such as eating more, drinking more alcohol and smoking. Forgiveness and forgetting are not easy. There are times you have a right to be angry. When you have been hurt or devastated, it is hard to forget. But long-term anger with no forgiveness is deadly. It may lead to carrying a grudge, which in turn hurts the one who harbors the grudge more than the one against whom it is directed.
As soon as you become aware of feeling angry, ask yourself three Questions:
Is this matter important to me?
When I look at the objective facts of the situation, is my anger justified?
Is there anything I can do to rectify the situations?
If the answer is Yes, don't blow up, but do ask the other person for the specific change in behavior needed t correct the problem. On the other hand , if you get one or more No's in answer to the three questions, you need to reason with yourself or try thought-stopping or distraction to get over your inappropriate anger.
I suggest that you spend a few minutes each day in a quite setting so that you empty your mind of disturbing thoughts. Relax your muscles and fucos on your breathing. Exhale slowly, letting all the air out of your lungs. Another strategy is learning to listen. This means waiting until the other person has finished speaking before breaking in wit your comments. Listening helps you appreciate the other perspective and decreases the likelihood of arguments. Equally important it increases the possibility that others will have a positive opinion of you. This should improve your self-esteem and thus eliminate the need to be on the defensive.
One more thing, about once a month, go through a normal day as thought at midnight on that day the earth will suddenly explode, ending all life. Chances are you will find yourself behaving more positively toward all whom you encounter.