Anger Management::Breakthrough of Anger Management
For some time therapists have believed that anger is OK - in fact, many therapists still believe that it's good to get angry once in a while. Around fifteen years ago in Japan it was discovered that around 10,000 executives were dying every year from overwork (Karoshi) and they found the cause to be excessive, but suppressed, anger. So they created 'anger rooms' in the basements of their offices, padded the walls and put a baseball bat in the room. They told executives, that if they felt anger developing inside them they should go to the room and just hit the walls with the bat as hard, and as much, as they wanted in order to get the anger out of their system. Two years later they measured the results. The amount of anger had increased. Why? After much thinking they eventually realized that people who were going to the rooms regularly were practicing getting angry and simply repeating the habit. The message - don't suppress and don't express your anger - transform it.
Source:
Brahma Kumaris
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