The Jumping Off Point

Emotions: Anger

Anger is natural. It’s necessary. Anger is a primal emotion meant as a defense mechanism when wronged, confused, frustrated, etc. No one is without anger and one would be lying to themselves if they said they were immune to Anger. 

However, how we choose to act regarding our anger is the bigger topic. There are those who would choose to react with hostility or verbal abuse and there are those who would stave off their initial inclination to act out and choose to react in a more harmless and less offensive way. 

When we act out our anger on others or on ourselves, we’re allowing the emotion to take control of us and we succumb to our own weakness. We lose any capacity to resolve the situation and we inherit any consequence that may accompany our actions. Generally, the consequences of this form of reaction are negative and require more effort to reconcile than would be necessary should we have chose to react differently. 

When we react to our anger with logic and resolve, we gain power over the emotion’s incapacitating nature and give ourselves the best possible chance to reconcile the situation in the easiest way; the path of least resistance. We empower ourselves to gainthe most knowledge of the cause of our anger and create the best possible medium for learning how to prevent it in the future.

Anger happens. It’s our prerogative to either learn from it or let it control us. The question really lies in whether or not we wish to preserve ourselves or suffer whatever consequences might apply to our reactions. 

Ultimately, we are always in control as to whether we let our anger effect us or not. No one causes us to feel the way we feel. We choose to feel how we feel when we experience something pleasant or unpleasant. We choose to allow an emotion to manifest or not. We choose how to handle that emotion, and we choose to accept whatever consequences follow that decision.

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