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@amiablePeace77

Suppressing it for most of my life made me dangerous to myself and others. It's dosen't go away on its own no matter how much time passes. I am still angry about things that happened 45 yes ago.

Is it better to suppress anger or to embrace it? What can anger tell us?

@amiablePeace77

Anger can show us a lot about who we are.

@amiablePeace77

Would say not to suppress. As it emotions. Kept inside will bottle up one day and be like volcano. 

Definitely we have to learn how to vent out healthy way. 

@amiablePeace77 ok after reading the others responses, I've learnt that is it not good to ignore it must be dealt with carefully and safely. Me though, for some strange reason, I don't get angry. Everything but anger, not sure why🤔🤔 and anger in others is my biggest fear. So let it out safely would be a good idea if I ever really feel it ❤

Thanks for questions, and making me think ❤❤gives you a giant tiny hug ❤❤ how do you handle it ami?

@amiablePeace77  Is it better to suppress anger or to embrace it? What can anger tell us?

I think it is better to avoid the thoughts that lead to anger by using mindful awareness.

Anger teaches me that my views on what is happening are not accurate and I hae unrealistic expectations.

@amiablePeace77

Hi, Ami,

Some things, I don't let them bother me anymore.  Some things I have had to let go because they are in the past and there is nothing I can do about it.  Other things, I stop and think about the best way to proceed with it, then act accordingly.

@amiablePeace77 I think anger tells us that something's not right. Maybe someone did or said something that hurt us or crossed a boundary 

I don't think it should be surpressed - it's not healthy. It eats away at you and builds up until you blow up or get resentful and bitter. Or take it out on yourself. But I do it anyway for a number of reasons. I was never allowed to express anger growing up and was never taught how to express it in a healthy way. Or any anger I expressed was met with someone else's bigger anger - because how dare I be angry about something

@amiablePeace77

Hi Ami! 😊❤️ Thank you for creating this forum post and this incredibly thought provoking topic! I love this one.

Is it better to suppress anger or to embrace it?

I would have to say it depends and both! There are some moments in which things will make us angry however, it could be highly inappropriate to express it given the setting in which we are in. Everyone is responsible for regulating their own emotions and doing so can be a sign of maturity. 

Having said that, it's good to eventually sit and process those feelings and emotions at some point. Continually suppressing anger could have negative effects over the long term. It almost seems to me that consistently shoving those emotions down, over and over, ignoring them could result in those emotions finding a way out eventually and to our detriment. 

It could lead to a suppressed immune system, becoming more at risk to catch common colds, flu, etc. It could lead to body aches and pain, headaches, poor sleep, negative outlook, being impatient with others/short tempered, psychosomatic ailments, lack of focus, memory problems, empathy fatigue, serious mental health issues, just to name a few. 

In addition, those feelings of anger could seep out eventually at the wrong place and in the wrong time. One could reach their saturation point, tipping point and in the wrong setting with someone that might not have even deserved to get the brunt of all of those pent up emotions. 

What can anger tell us? 

I think our anger can tell us a great deal about ourselves. An interesting vantage point is that anger isn't truly an emotion at all. It's simply an outward expression of either hurt, fear or frustration and or a mixture of them. Having that mind set can enable us to really think about why it is that we "feel angry". Why did that hurt us? What are we afraid of? What is that is frustrating us about the situation?

Thinking deeply about those things can lead to self awareness. 💡 Know thyself! It can also help us to move forward and find logical ways to find resolution to the problem. Isolating the true issue at hand, rolling up ones sleeves and drilling down deep. 

Next level thought...the ego. One school of thought is that part of the art of finding true happiness is "loss of the ego". The more one can shed the ego, focusing less on the self and more on others through helpful and service driven behaviors (it ain't all about me thang 😊) the happier one may become as a natural by product. Serenity now? 

To "piggy back" on that, some could consider that becoming angry in some instances can be simply an "ego move".  Someone insulted you? Someone said something hurtful, someone said something that isn't true? You know better. You know it's not true. We get angry because they poked or bruised our ego. Losing that ego involves nothing left to poke at! Feeling that anger lets us know that indeed, we are still a work in progress. 

We can release the thoughts to the universe as well as the person that is hurting us with the idea that we all grow and understand at different rates. We can wish them well in our hearts ❤️ and know that "grasshopper have much work to do on themselves also"! 😊

Ami, thank you again for such an amazing forum post! I enjoyed spending time here today! 

*high fives* 😊 and *hugs* ❤️