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The Effect of Anger

Medical and psychological research has shown that no matter how much you exercise or eat correctly, you are putting yourself at risk if you do not manage your anger. Suppressed or unsuppressed anger causes a wide spread effect on the body. To fully understand the process of anger, it is important to sense what happens to the body when one becomes angry. In a moment of anger, people may experience muscle tension, grinding of teeth and teeth clenching, ringing in the ears, flushing, higher blood pressure, chest pains, excessive sweating, chills, severe headaches or migraines.

With chronic anger people can experience peptic ulcers, constipation, diarrhea, intestinal cramping, hiccups, chronic indigestion, heart attacks, strokes, kidney problems, obesity, and frequent colds. Medical experts have found that the heart muscle is effected by anger and can actually reduce the hearts ability to pump properly.

The results of prolonged anger can actually cause harm to the body’s largest organ, the skin. Many people who hold their anger in often have skin diseases such as rashes, hives, warts, eczema, and acne. Researchers have studied anger and skin disorders and discovered that when the person resolved their deep buried anger, skin disorders dramatically improved.

One of the major effects anger has on the body is the release of chemicals and hormones, primarily the adrenaline and non-adrenaline. The adrenaline act on all organs that reach the sympathetic nervous system stimulating the heart, dilating the coronary vessels, constricting blood vessels in the intestines, and shutting off digestion.

Suppressed anger can also have psychological effects causing depression, eating disorders, addictions such as drug and alcohol, nightmares, insomnia, self destructive behaviors and can even cause disruptions in the way a person relates to others.

There are many ways people can control their anger.

*Meditation. You hear it all the time, take a deep breath and count to ten. Meditation can allow you to take some time breathe, relax, and to reflect on the situation and take a critical look at what you’re angry at.

*Practice forgiveness. Anger often times results in resentments. Resentments can be resolved through forgiveness. You do not necessarily have to forgive the person you are angry at face to face, you can forgive in any way that works for you.

*Anger management. There are clinics that are specializing in anger management and proper ways to release deep anger.

*Talking. Sometimes just talking it through with a friend and venting out frustrations before it becomes anger.

* Creativity. Be creative in releasing your anger. Screaming in a pillow, dancing, aerobics, pillow pounding, stretching exercises, tearing up old news papers, throwing rocks in a safe place, squeezing a ball of clay, kicking a ball or pillow, using a punching bag, or some sort of sport activity such as basket ball, racket ball, soccer or throwing a baseball.

No matter how you choose to deal with your anger, it is important to learn safe effective ways to release your anger. The result of prolonged anger can actually change how our body functions. Anger is an important emotion and should not be held in, however, there are many appropriate and healthy ways to release it. The important thing to remember is anger needs to be released.