Reverse Heart Disease in 24 days (19)

Hi there,

Nineteenth day, six days to go to heart and circulatory health. So what now? It is time to use sound anger management and elimination principles. Research has shown that losing your rag can double your risk of heart attack within two hours of the anger episode. Duke University Medical Center psychiatrist Redford Williams suggests some questions you can ask yourself:


- Is what's upsetting me really important?

- Is what I'm thinking and feeling appropriate?

- Is the situation modifiable?

- Is taking action worth it?

Find some legitimate channel to use the energy built up due to anger instead. Call a "strife break". Anger usually arises because we percieve our security, self - worth or significance have been challenged. This is why it is crucial to question our emotion of anger. It might be a perception which on reflection can be changed into a more constructive one! If possible leave the vicinity, give yourself time to think and question your anger. What could be the possible result of losing your rag? Are these consequences that would be beneficial? What could you do instead? What could be the results?

So to summarise, here are 7 questions you are likely to find helpful:

- Do you know that the first step in anger management is to realize that you are angry?

- Do you know that you can control the amount of anger you experience by how you perceive the situation?

- Do you need to take a “strife break” in order to have time to control your anger?

a) If the other person refuses to take the break, the person calling for the strife break has the right to retire to the nearest bathroom and lock the door so that he or she can take the required break.

b)In extreme cases, if the other person refuses to take the strife break and might be so violent as to try to break through the bathroom door, that person has the right to leave the home and go to a public place from which they can call after the thirty minutes. If an anger problem still exists, they can hang up and continue to call back at thirty minute intervals until they are able to resolve the problem and return home. If not, the problem should be taken to counseling.

- Do you need to de-anger or talk yourself down from high levels of anger?

- Do you need to use your anger to resolve the situation, give it to God or drop it? These are the three acceptable uses of anger. Since anger is energy to resolve problems or injustices we should use it first for its primary purpose—to resolve the problem. In cases where we have done everything we can do, but are unable to resolve the problem, we should give our anger to God. In cases where the problem is insignificant and not worth the effort, we should drop it.

- Do you know you should avoid the wrong uses of anger? These are aggression, displacement, depression, passive - aggression, burying it or personalising it.


- Do you take offences personally?


When angry, do not sin; do not ever let your wrath (your exasperation, your fury or indignation) last until the sun goes down.

Leave no [such] room or foothold for the devil [give no opportunity to him] - Ephesians 4: 26, 27 Amplified Bible.


To your abundant excellent health,


Dr Ike
Holistic Health Mentor and Functional Health Expert

Sources:

Biblical Answers for Anger Management http://www.faiththerapy.org/Anger%20Topic.html

Prevention: http://www.prevention.com/health/health/health-concerns/reverse-heart-disease-in-24-days/article


The Bible; Paul's Letter to the Ephesian Church; Chapter 4; Verses 26 and 27; Amplified Bible.