54 / 365 Calibrate
Your Anger Index
For
every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It
is natural to feel angry sometimes. If
we don’t express our feelings, we will suffer ‘emotional constipation’! We are
human beings with feelings and emotions and it is okay to experience the same.
But the most important question is: how frequently we feel so? It is like
having fever or head ache. If we have fever very frequently, our system will
break down. Similarly, if we feel angry very often, we will end up with
emotional breakdown. Feeling happy and excited all day long will not affect our
mental health. But negative feelings will alter our mindset and attitude.
We
have to calibrate the frequency and intensity of our anger by an exercise for a
week. Have some beads or coins handy. Whenever you feel angry, transfer a bead
from one pocket to another. Or you can put a tally on a paper, whenever you
feel angry. At the end of the day, calculate the number of times you felt
angry. This is an index of your negative mental health.
Try
this for a week and notice what happens to the frequency of your anger!
(From my book “365 Exciting Ways to Live”)
NC Sridharan
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Sridharan
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