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Anger

Anger is a destructive force and it is one of the passions of the mind or our human emotion. Whereas it is normal to be upset when something unpleasant happens to us, being angry is an extreme form of being upset. Without proper control of it and not understanding its destructive nature, we often allow it to spiral out of control. Additional to that, we justify it when all is said and done. Sometimes we regret it and other times we feel good about it if it affords us a false sense of pride stemming from having intimidated, beaten up, or forcibly encroached upon someone else’s space, and we call it justifiable anger so as to justify our actions. In our own self-righteous way, it is always the other person’s fault, we conveniently believe. We feel we have the right to be angry because we have been provoked without realizing the deleterious consequences of such emotional indulgence. We make no attempt to control it or if we try we often fail at it especially if anger is a dominant and intractable force in our life. In the fit of anger, we are liable to say things that are destructive and irrational that we would not say if we had kept our emotions in check.

It is important to recognize that words, deeds, thoughts fueled and executed with anger are always destructive. The problem is that as these actions born out of anger begin to come back as negative effect, we don’t recognize their origin thus we are often unable to link them to our past actions. Unfortunately, we begin to point fingers at others, blaming everybody but ourselves. Blinded by our emotions and unable to see the causal link, we repeat the same cycle, making the same mistakes over and over and continue to suffer the effects emanating from such negative thoughts and deeds. Sooner or later it begins to have ruinous impact on our life. It is in our best interest to learn to control anger by gaining control of our mind. That is the starting point. First step is to learn to recognize its injurious effect on yourself and to whom it is directed and find techniques to minimize or bring it under control. To help bring anger under control, one can try a simple natural technique by either mentally or vocally singing an ancient natural charged sound called HU (sang as HUE) when you get angry or catch yourself getting angry.

Essentially what we are learning is how to put Soul in charge of the mind other than the other way round. As the expression aptly goes: The mind makes a bad master but a good servant.