Liberate Yourself From Anger

You ever have an emotion, and you know you shouldn’t have it but something happens and you look at yourself and realize oh look- there's that pesky one again. Thought we got rid of you but nope, here you are just taking up free rent in my mind.

From time to time this happens to me, mercifully not as often as previously but still being in the whole process of healing, ugly emotions surface.

Frankly, I am flat out grateful. Without these guys coming up for air to be acknowledged I wouldn’t know they were even there. I would be blissfully unaware that bitterness was lying under the surface waiting to rot my bones, or grief stirring and churning just waiting for an opportunity to hit my lungs with some cough, cold or other such thing.

I can’t be the only one and so, my next goal is to assist each of you who would like to uproot and clean out certain negative nellys so you are cleared from future bamboozling.

Today is brought to you by the emotion of anger. Now, I use to pride myself on my wit and dark-ish humor, aka sarcasm. Until a friend gently pointed out that sarcasm is a cover up for anger. Oof. Of course, my favorite in Downton Abby character mentioned it first as saying, “Sarcasm is a poor substitute for wit”. And of course, we all know Oscar Wilde’s OG remark- “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.” With his quote in mind, I tread lightly on the idea of ridding myself of sarcasm completely, lest I become less intelligent. We’ll see.

In any case, let’s talk anger. In my vast years of experience studying humans day after day while cutting their hair, it occurs to me that there are a lot of pissed off folks in this world. Like just so angry. Enter the world of social media and you need look no further than a few posts. Anger as far as the eye can see.

You probably know this, but just in case; did you know that suppressed anger can lead to high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, anxiety, insomnia, and a load of other nonsense? Think of how depression and anxiety has gone up 25% over the past decade or so. Maybe people are just mad? Maybe, just maybe, if everyone was able to release the anger for good and able to experience peace and patience, depression and anxiety would plummet.

I don’t know why some of you are angry. I only know my own journey. But what I can share with you is two tools that seem to help me through those moments, (loooooong moments) when anger says “hey, girl heeeey!” again.

1. I journal. I know, you’re floored with shock and surpirse. But seriously, journaling is such a powerful and FREE tool that has unearthed many things and released trapped emotions time and again. You’re able to see the truth of the matter and get it out of your head.

2. I use ONE essential oil- Roman Chamomile. Others may help but not like this one. It is literally THE BEST anger remover I have found to date. It soothes my overactive nervous system while routing out the trapped anger. It basically works like a bouncer in a bar, you know?

3. I take some minerals (Mineral Essence) with an antioxidant drink (Ningxia Red). Mineral depletion is a no bueno situation for those in full blown anger mode. Calcium in particular is a mood regulator. It is needed to produce serotonin and melatonin. Both key is happy feels.

Sitting and stewing in anger is not ideal as you can see. Smack talking with sarcasm only angers others and so now you have two or more pissed off people in the world. Probably not a good choice either.

You've got nothing to lose and a whole world of peace to gain, try my suggestions.