Freeing Yourself from Anger

What do you do when people don’t treat you right in your life? You get angry. When you’re a child it can be easy to express your anger and move on from the upsetting incident. Young children will often turn to aggressive acts such as biting or hitting to show their anger and part of growing up is learning that these displays aren’t appropriate reactions to anger. As we grow up, we learn that we shouldn’t always react in anger and often learn ways to internalize our negative feelings. On one hand, holding back our anger lets us get along better with our peers, it can also lead you to be held prisoner by your own emotions.

It’s important to learn constructive ways to express your anger so that you don’t suffer from the many consequences of chronic anger. When you free yourself from anger, you are freeing yourself from a cascade of symptoms that may lead to heart failure, depression, anxiety and other chronic diseases that will shorten your life span and quality of life.

With such potentially devastating affects on your body and overall outlook on life, it is vital that you learn ways to free yourself from anger. And while you may have heard many of these tips before, anger can be a hard habit to break. Of course, it’s always easier said than done, but these steps will help liberate you from the toxic affects of chronic anger.

Tips to Let Go of Anger

Express Your Anger

Whether you need to get daily frustrations off your chest or release heavy emotional baggage that you’ve been carrying for years, venting to a trusted confidante can be one crucial step in freeing yourself from anger. Be careful not to fall into the trap of cyclic anger. Vent your anger and move on. Leave it in the conversation and find constructive ways to move forward.

You may also come up with a ritual that helps you release your anger out into the world. Many people have found peace by writing a cathartic letter and burning it in a fire or sending it out into the ocean.

One important component to expressing your anger is to articulate why you are angry, not just what you are angry about. By expressing why you are angry, you are in a better position for someone to understand your position and to respond to your expression of anger.

Try Forgiveness On For Size

Forgiveness can be a touchy and difficult subject, but it may be one vital piece in solving the problem of your anger. But it’s important to learn and understand what forgiveness really is and what it’s not. At its heart, forgiveness is the release of bitterness and resentment to the point that you no longer feel the need for any sort of retaliation.

By forgiving those who have angered or hurt you, you are in a better position to embrace compassion and protect yourself in the future. Remember, forgiveness is not forgetting and it’s not letting someone continue to hurt you. It’s a gift that allows you to move on when you’ve been hurt.

One thing to remember is that freeing yourself from anger isn’t saying that you’ll never get mad again. It’s simply embracing a way of life that allows you to express your anger in a way that promotes change and gives you the peace of mind to move forward without regrets or resentments.