For all you angry birds out there
Dr Ravi Kant
Anger is a decoction of many vices; namely ego, greed, sex, mania, jealousy, etc. It’s a way to express one’s annoyance, irritation, vexation, displeasure, resentment, due to some provocation or else. For every minute you remain angry, you give up 60 seconds of peace of mind. People will ignore you, if you are always angry or complaining.
According to the Bhagwat Gita, “Anger hurts only oneself”. ‘You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger,’ says Buddha.
Face the consequences
Although anger can be positive at times, often it leads to harmful consequences like road rage, domestic violence, child abuse, physical assault, and even murder. Consequently it can cost you your health. Expression of anger may make you feel good, but it can lead to guilt, shame, embarrassment and remorse. Later one realises that one’s self esteem has been damaged as his response was overblown, misdirected and also unwarranted.
One’s anger can damage relationships, marriage, friendships and families due to frequent verbal or physical outbursts. It can severely affect children, who are witness to all this behaviour. Even the quality and quantity of work at work place gets disturbed due to such fits of anger.
How to manage
- Think before you speak or act.
- Do some daily exercises.
- Once you are calm; then express your disenchantment.
- Take a break.
- Find solutions to problems.
- Don’t keep a grudge.
- Don’t be critical; and use the word I to describe the problem to other person, respectfully.
- Use humour to release tension.
- Imply relaxation techniques like; deep breathing, yoga, meditation, self-calling calming words—“take it easy.”
- Listen to music, read books, write in a journal.
- One should know when to seek help.
Homeopathy helps
This system of medicine has a wide range of medicines, which helps —-
- By bringing change in the mentality of the patient, we can control anger.
- Removing the complications arising from anger or suppression of anger.
- Also helpful in curing diseases, which arise in patients who bore the brunt of other person’s anger and also those who got vexed due to it.
Anger can give rise to multiple ailments in living beings like fear, weeping mood, vexation, irritability, headache, depression, sadness, diarrhoea, constipation, convulsions, jaundice, nausea, asthma, mania, vomiting, metrorrhagia, cough, stomach pain, paralysis, cramping, dim vision, trembling, spasms, delusions and discoloration of face.
It can cause delayed or difficult childbirth. There can be suppression of milk in an irritable mother after a fit of anger. It can also cause puerperal convulsions in lactating mothers and infants. Fear instilled in person due to facing of anger can also cause convulsions, fever, and obstruction in intestines. Miasmatic manifestations can cause anger, exhibit traits in cardiac and mental diseases. Suicidal tendency, desire to throw things, being violent, murderous instincts are treatable in homoeopathy. This system of medicine can help in saving families, relations and society. One should not conceal anything from his physician and seek advice to avoid self-medication.
(Dr Kant is a Chandigarh-based homeopath)
