How do you handle your anger?

How do you handle your anger?

Now there's a good question! I have struggled with anger and rage since childhood. Have spent a lot of time and money addressing it. The less we have dealt with it, the more things will spark it off and the more painful it feels. If we have the willingness to deal with it and get to the root of it, it can be dissolved over time. Just like peeling the layers off an onion.

When I apologize, then cool down and then talk.

There is medication for that. It's part of a mood disorder. I have it. It used to be worse though.

Eckhart Tolle, the famous spiritual teacher, has a lot to say about anger. Normally we hear it said that anger is a cover for hurt, fear or frustration. Eckhart enlarges on that by saying the "energy" of anger is a feeling of powerlessness in a particular situation. We react to this with anger.

^ I agree completely.