Anger can lead to real heartbreak. A person's risk of having a heart attacked increased nearly five-fold within two hours of having an angry outburst. According to a Harvard University review of more than 6,000 people who experienced a cardiovascular event. The risk of stroke increased more than threefold. Anger ups heart rate and blood pressure and makes blood vessels stiffen, straining the cardiovascular system.
At one time I was one of the angriest people you could possible know although with a great deal of will power I kept my anger in check. The problem was because I wasn't dealing with my issue of anger it became harder and harder to keep myself from exploding in someone's face.
I knew I had to deal with my anger when it got so bad that I literally felt my arm starting to slug someone independent of any conscious thought on my part. I was able to stop myself in time but that incident scared me. It made me get to the root of my anger. That's when I discovered that anger was the worst form of self-abuse we can inflict upon ourselves.
When we don't love ourselves sufficiently our default system is one anger, this is especially true for people brought up in an environment where they had a lot of angry and abusive people in their life.
Today, I rarely feel any angry impulses at all. It took loving myself sufficiently to exchange my angry heart for a heart of peace and understanding of myself and others. If you want read my journey from Self-loathing to Self-Love, click here
I love giving heart gifts. A heart gift is something you
give to people with no strings attached and with no expectation of ever
getting anything back in return. It's been my experience this kind of
giving yields the great blessings in life. Today, I want to give you a
heart gift that requires nothing from you, not now, not in the future,
not never. It is a short book I wrote last year
that I have no intention of ever publishing. It too thought
provoking to publish, a nice way of saying it is too controversial for
my family to handle. The title of the book, written in my 'short, sweet,
and to the point style' is called: Embracing Pain Causes No Pain. It is
in a PDF file format. If you wish to read it, click this link. http://www.frederickzappone.com/EPNP.pdf
You can also save it and download it to your computer. Nothing is required of you to do that.
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All feeling bad is good for is to make sure you feel worse. Use feeling bad as an
ALERT signal to focus on what brings a smile to your face and makes your heart soar.
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We become free to follow the desires of our heart when we are
influenced more by our own thoughts than the thoughts of others.
