Your feelings of extreme displeasure, hostility or exasperation toward someone or something is simply an expression of the pain of your inner sadness coming out of your mouth in words spoken or in written communication.
Barbara C. Fisher, Ph.D., author, neuropsychologist and administrative director of United Psychological Services www.unitedpsychologicalservices.com, says, "Anger and sadness are the same energy. When we are angry, we feel the loss of something and we are mad about it, as well as sad. Anger is sad, anger is loss. Women are not allowed to be angry, whereas men are. Women are taught to swallow anger and move on.....making things better and people happy....as the emotional caretaker of the family."
Steps that help you control anger begins when you can identify what you are sad about. Then reframe your sadness to see it differently; think about a comment someone has made and why he or she made it...or...something we wanted but did not get...or...what is the big picture we are not seeing?
Dr. Fisher says, "When you go to bed with anger, you wake up with anger. Anger begets anger. People do evoke anger in us but it is up to us to stand back and not pick up the anger by seeing their contorted face differently."
Moving away from anger by seeing or listening to what is behind the angry words spoken can be the foundation for a hopeful future. When we hope for something, it matters not that there are good reasons or justification for attaining our manifestation. Having a hopeful manner is more than an attitude or belief. It is the purpose, process and spiritual energy that drives us forward toward "connecting the dots" and living a passionate life, in good times or bad.
Hope can effectively battle depression
Hope is different from optimism which is a generalized expectancy that good things will happen. Hope is something that can be taught and developed in many of the people who need it---like those who suffer from depression. A growing body of research suggests that there is a potent way to fight symptoms of depression--one that doesn't involve getting a prescription. "We're finding that hope is consistently associated with fewer symptoms of depression," said Jennifer Cheavens, assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State University.
Your feelings of extreme displeasure, hostility or exasperation toward someone or something is simply an expression of the pain of your inner sadness coming out of your mouth in words spoken or in written communication.
Steps that help you control anger begins when you can identify what you are sad about. Then reframe your sadness to see it differently; think about a comment someone has made and why he or she made it...or...something we wanted but did not get...or...what is the big picture we are not seeing?
Moving away from anger by seeing or listening to what is behind the angry words spoken can be the foundation for a hopeful future. When we hope for something, it matters not that there are good reasons or justification for attaining our manifestation. Having a hopeful manner is more than an attitude or belief. It is the purpose, process and spiritual energy that drives us forward toward "connecting the dots" and living a passionate life, in good times or bad.
Hope can effectively battle depression
Hope is different from optimism which is a generalized expectancy that good things will happen. Hope is something that can be taught and developed in many of the people who need it---like those who suffer from depression. A growing body of research suggests that there is a potent way to fight symptoms of depression--one that doesn't involve getting a prescription. "We're finding that hope is consistently associated with fewer symptoms of depression," said Jennifer Cheavens, assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State University.