Hello my friends, Here is some great advise.Kathy/simikathy.com Remove Anger - Nine Ways More Guidance Solutions Adapted from The Yoga of the Nine Emotions, by Peter Marchand (Inner Traditions, 2006). If we feel anger but do not want it, then there are many ways to get rid of it. By itself anger will not stay for a very long time because of the natural changes in body chemistry. So if we do not feed anger with our thoughts it will go all by itself. Be on the watch for anger’s friend: Fear. Work to overcome the fears that make us angry through feeling helpless Keep these guidelines around to use when you need them! Here are nine practical ways to remove the biochemical basis for anger: 1. Slowly drinking several glasses of cool water (not icy cold) is a sure way to get rid of Anger. Soft drinks, with a lot of sugar, acids, and often caffeine will not do. They will only increase the excitement. 2. Drinking water that has been stored in a silver cup, accumulating lunar energy for a day and night or more, is the very best. As an alternative, sun-baked or unglazed clay cups may also be used. 3. Not taking any sweet or fat and especially fasting for some time is a sure way to deny combustibles to the fire of anger. Since the feeling of hunger may increase irritability, any food fasting should be combined with exercising calmness. 4. Taking a little sweet may help, but only a small amount should be taken and allowed to slowly melt in the mouth, just to give the direct effect of the taste. 5. Avoid pungent, salty, sour, and astringent tastes in general. 6. Avoid alcohol, because it is the best combustible available, heating and drying the body. 7. Chewing red or green cardamom will turn the acid biochemistry to alkaline and thus reduce anger. 8. Yogurt and lemons are very good also. Lemons are sour but are cooling, unlike most sour foods. 9. Wearing pearls or taking pearl powder for more than one lunar cycle is a good way to get rid of persistent anger. We must, however, take care not to cool down the body too much because it may trigger a response that heats up the body, such as happens after taking a really cold shower.

Hi Kathy,

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Thank you for this. I used to be a very angry person because I have
been treated badly by a lot of people, but It is no longer my problem.

The things that bother me most about society is that most
have a subjective opinion about anger and view it
as a mental illness.

It is normal to get angry when we are wronged by someone.
Emotions have to be expressed. They don't however. have
to be expressed negatively.

As Kathy pointed out in her article, there are certain substances
which help. But if these emotions are bottled up and left to
ferment in our minds, negative behavior is sure to result.
The emotion feeds on itself and becomes a living thing
and then controls you, no matter how strong your willpower.

This is called "Mental Poisoning"

There are many good books on this subject and I have read most
of them. It wasn't a book, however that led to my freedom
from mental poisoning. What I did next is a whole other story.

I really like the lemon thing, I'll find that one easier to remember, something sour while you're sour. 

Two of the things that I do when I'm angry and have found that it helps...

1.  I write the person or persons a letter expressing my anger, what they did wrong, why I was hurt, what they should have done, etc. etc., and then when I'm quite done ( I usually rewrite it a time or two), I don't mail it.  I'm usually typing it, so I save it to look at later.  Don't know why I save them, but I do.

2.  I pray for the person who made me angry.  Now that's not always an easy thing to do, especially when it appled to my exhusband when he walked out on me.  The first few times all I could muster up was "Help him".  But as the days went by, I was able to pray more specifically for him, and eventually my anger was gone, and I no longer wanted him to suffer for what he had done.  But this took weeks and weeks of praying for him every time I got angry with him again.

It seems that persistent prayer will replace anger with genuine concern and Christian love, if people would only get in that habit, their anger would subside without leaving any stressful residue which could be harmful to their health.

I think the Catholics have it right - get angry, then go to confession and relieve yourself from the guilt of anger.  It certainly makes sense as far as good emotional and mental health are concerned.

Warm regards,

Sandra