The Danger of Anger: Possible Solutions

Introduction

The word anger is one short of danger and we must understand that whenever we get angry then a dangerous situation awaits us. We can understand this analogy with a short story. There was a child in a village who used to get angry about very small things. One day his father decided to teach him a lesson. Father had provided a bunch of nails to his son and ordered him to pierce those nails on a wooden boundary of their farm. That child followed the instructions of his father and started piercing those nails. When the son had completed the task then his father instructed him to remove those nails one by one. On this, his son became angry but followed the instructions and completed the second task as well. Father asked his son to observe learnings from this task but his son was not able to grab the lesson. On this, his father explained that when the nails were removed from the boundary then those nails left the scar on the boundary. He further explained that the results of anger are like those scars. When we say bad things to others then we leave a bad impression on others. There is another saying related to anger that “anger is just like a burning coal in our hand and it used to burn our own hands before harming others”. We used to say bad things about others when we are angry but we must understand that our words may pierce the hearts of others. Our bad words can also leave a long-lasting bad impact on others.

Possible solutions

First of all, we must not take any decision when we are angry as our mind used to get closed when we are angry. Mel Robbins in her book the five-second rule beautifully explained how we can take decisions by counting five seconds in our minds. Similarly whenever we are angry then we can at least count five seconds in your mind before taking any decision or saying something to others. We must always take a pause before reacting to any situation and this is the best solution. By implementing this strategy we can save ourselves and others from many difficult situations. Apart from the five-second rule, we can also implement one more technique and that is called the breathing technique. As we can take wrong decisions when we are angry hence we must take a deep breath whenever we feel angry. This deep breath gives us time to understand the situation and hence we do not take the wrong Decisions. Apart from this, we used to get time to introspect about our angry behavior.

Summary

It is true that we face many situations where we used to get angry but we can control our reaction. The reaction can easily be converted into a response by following the five-second rule and a breathing technique. So just be calm and observe our own reaction towards other's actions.

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