Where
do you keep your rage?Where does it all come from?
A commonality amongst the human population is their tolerance for others' rage. Why is it so acceptable to become a destructive member of society. The media has one of the biggest impacts on shaping our youth to become abnormally angry at the world around them. On television, it is acceptable to do onto others what they have done to you. Aggressiveness is spawning from the media's dark view of the world. Destruction and rage attracts viewers and attracting viewers is the goal of the hungry media. Unfortunately people are somewhat influenced by the violence they see and begin to accept it more as normal. Parents have the greatest influence stemming upon their children's upbringing. They teach mostly by example and if they are not good parents, their kids turn out as delinquents or bad parents themselves. Rage stemed from childhood is the underlining cause of most dysfunctional adolescents and adults. The more anger a person posesses the less room there is for other emotions such as love, compassion, or faithfulness.
Men and the emotion of rage.
Men have a rather different approach to emotions
than women. Men repress their feelings more than women and regard
them as a sign of weakness. As children, when
young boys cry because they get hurt, their fathers tell them to stop crying
and be a man while girls are comforted and asked what happened. Rage
on the other hand is the most commonly expressed emotion of men.
Men use rage to manipulate and control others. Out of fear, another
person tends to do what an angry person wants rather than when the person
is just annoying or repetitive. Rage takes another more subtle form
as competition. Competition sums up the entire history of man.
In the beginning man strived against nature for his very survival and today
men fight wars against one another to prove one is better than another.
Man is very competitive because of underlining emotions of jealousy and
fear of being the weakest.
Anger can be a choice.
Rage does not control a person. The person has ultimate control over him or herself. The power of choice is the greatest power that a manself can posess. The necessity to express our rage often overwhelms us in times of trouble and anxiety but releasing rage can be used more constructively like art rather than hostility.
"You have a choice of which course of action you
take. You can choose love, joy, health, happiness, inner serenity and
contentment ... heaven. Or, you can choose
a troubled mind ... troubled by obscure, insidious fears, deeply held false
beliefs, and repressed anger ... and all the suffering, sickness, stress,
struggle, strain, loneliness, unhappiness, restlessness, and discontent
that this course of action entails ... hell."
- http://members.aol.com/dwightnk/anger.htm
http://www.OnlineToday.Com/users/advicekt/
-If you need any advise about dealing with
anger, stress, or other emotions.
http://members.aol.com/dwightnk/anger.htm
-A web page about religeon and emotions and anger.
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