THE ENEMY WITHIN

Emotional intelligence 

The world consists of different people from different places, with different personalities, traits and makeup. With only one main common ground which is the earth in which we habit on and due to these differences in diverse people,  co-habiting and condoning becomes difficult some times or rather most times in this world with other people.
Differences creates lack of oneness, lack of understanding and anger becomes inevitable. People tend to flare up towards others. https://pirevolution.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-enemy-within.html?m=1

Physical effects of anger

Anger triggers the body’s ‘fight or flight’ response. Other emotions that trigger this response include fear, excitement and anxiety. The adrenal glands flood the body with stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol.The brain shunts blood away from the gut and towards the muscles, in preparation for physical exertion. Heart rate, blood pressure and respiration increase, the body temperature rises and the skin perspires. The mind is sharpened and focused.

Health problems with anger

The constant flood of stress chemicals and associated metabolic changes that go with ongoing unmanaged anger can eventually cause harm to many different systems of the body.

Some of the short and long-term health problems that have been linked to unmanaged anger include:

1. Headache

2. Digestion problems, such as abdominal pain

3. Insomnia

4. Increased anxiety

5. Depression

6. High blood pressure

7. Skin problems, such as eczema

8. Heart attack

9. Stroke.

Don't be punished by anger 

The ability to control most of the negative traits that are forced into our being is needed for a better life. And the world will be a better place. Having in mind one of the golden rules which is to "do unto others as you will have them do to you."
Here is a short story on controlling Anger.

  There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father  decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence.
 On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his anger over the next few weeks and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He discovered it was easier to control his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence.

Deal with your anger 

Finally,  the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all .He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail everyday he kept his anger under control.
  The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

" you have done well my son but, look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be thesame. When you say things in anger , they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't  matter how many times you say I'm sorry the wound is still there".

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?

 In a nutshell,  control your anger and don't say things to people in the heat of the moment. “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”

Control your anger 

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

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