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Anger

Do you find yourself feeling out of sorts or angry a lot? What do you do when you get angry?  Let's talk about this powerful feeling.

Anger is a powerful emotion that reveals itself in many different ways. Some folks seem to go through life with a chip on their shoulder. They are quick to find things to be angry about, always fix the cause of their anger as somewhere outside themselves, and occasionally erupt into rage. Other people seem to run on a pretty even keel most of the time, but when they get angry they explode and feel completely out of control. 

One of my seminar participants once described anger like jumping into a powerful sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed, and then discovering that the brakes don't work. But you know, it is possible to do some work on those brakes, and while you may want to get professional help, you can learn to be your own mechanic too. 

You can learn to accept yourself and others as they are at the same time you focus on and move toward a new way of dealing with anger. You can learn to think constructively about what you'd like to have happen, rather than destructively about what you don't want. And you can learn to channel the energy that now goes to fuel your anger into building an exciting future instead. 

If you decide to use your enormous potential, you can put the brakes on anger, shift gears, and take charge of your life.