Category: Anger

  • Anger: Punishing Yourself for Another’s Error

    Anger is a complex emotion we all are affected by. When things do not happen according to our wishes anger can result. The things we easily control are our activities. This means anger is more likely to result from the actions of someone other than ourselves. Anger is pretty much like shutting the stable doors…

  • The Knife Killing Crisis is Everyone’s Crisis

    The Knife Killing Crisis is Everyone’s Crisis

    Knife killing has become a common word in England. Nearly every week, though it seems like every day, some kid is knifed, often killed. The other day there was yet another such killing, I should say, at my doorstep. Doorstep in the sense that where it happened, is a place I have been to maybe…

  • Top things we complain about (how many can you tick?)

    Top things we complain about (how many can you tick?)

    I have an acquaintance who always seems to moan. It can be tiresome almost to the point of depressing. Some of the things she complains about, are things not even worth mention. But she can be trusted to complain about it.  Something is always ridiculous!! The other day for example, it was roadworks.   I kept…

  • Anger: Self-Punishment For Another’s Mistake

    Anger is often the punishment we give ourselves for the mistake of others. Let’s say I am driving and another driver cuts in front of me at a junction. I have the choice to be angry and upset or to not to let it affect me.  In choosing anger I let the action of another…

  • How to stop Overreacting

    How to stop Overreacting

    Are you quite touchy or people think you are?  Do you often overreact?   I think everyone including the calmest of the calmest person has overreacted at one time or the other in this life.   The words came out, you used a detonator to crack the nut, and now it has all blown over…

  • 5 Ways to direct Anger Positively

    The Good Book says be angry but sin not.  While that may sound like a green light to be angry, it cannot be discounted that the same verse does say anger should not lead to sin.  This shows that anger could be negative.  After all, many say that there is one letter  in danger and…