The nature of anger

“Inside Out” poster

Let’s make it clear: being angry at someone or something is your own problem. It has nothing to do with the other person or the world around you. Also we may see anger as a reaction to the external factors, however we all are aware of the fact that anger comes from within. Anger comes from the underworlds of our souls. Everyone who has ever felt anger knows — anger grows in the heart and reaches the mind resulting in either small blow or atomic-bomb-like explosion.

The easiest explanation of the nature of anger is that our expectations don’t match reality. As a result our mind perceives the reality to be aggressive to us and anger is a mental reaction to the act of external aggression. True mainly from the psychological point of view. If this is truth, it means we are doomed for eternal suffering cause by the definition expectations and reality don’t match. Life is so diverse and changes so fast that it simply can’t be always compliant to our expectations and having no expectations goes against human nature. This is how anger management is a millions dollars industry.

But, maybe, everything is not that scary overall. It is just what you think you know about anger is false.

Anger is nothing else but another form of energy. The problem is not that we are angry, the real problem is that we got stuck and can’t let things go. We are taught to deep dive into the…