- How to Manage Anger-

Are you often angry?
Do you frequently overreact?
Do you take your anger out on someone other than the person you’re angry with?
Do you hold grudges, pout, or sulk?
Do you stay angry for a long time?
Are you scared of your anger?
Are other people scared of your anger?
Does your anger negatively affect the people you live or work with?
Do you ever get violent when you’re angry?

If you answered yes to two or more of these questions, you may have a problem with anger. And anger may be keeping you from communicating effectively.Anger is one of the most primal and complex feelings in the range of human emotions. Although it is neither good nor bad, its misuse causes a great deal of suffering:

Undermining trust, loyalty, and teamwork
Destroying relationships
Creating a hostile environment
Lowering productivity
Contributing to health problems
Incurring legal expenses
Contributing to violence

The problem with anger, as Aristotle observed over 2,500 year ago, is this: “Anyone can become angry — that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — this is not easy.”Anger does three things.
It alerts us to a problem. It’s like a siren, warning us of a threat to our safety or to the safety of those we care for.
It focuses our attention. When we’re angry, we have trouble thinking about anything else.

It gives us energy. Anger floods the bloodstream with chemicals that turbocharge the body and prepare it to take action.