Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. There are many obstacles in life that can keep us from finding peace and

happiness. But perhaps one of the hardest challenges to overcome is letting go of our anger.

Other people do things to us that make us upset, that hurt our feelings, that cause us

to suffer, and it can feel so unjust that we just want retribution. We want them to

suffer as we have suffered. But that anger that we hang on to can eat us alive and it truly is one of the biggest obstacles

that keep us from finding peace and happiness.

So in today's podcast, I want to explore a very good technique for dealing with this anger in order to let it go and to find that happiness and peace that we really seek in life. Well first why is hanging on to anger not good

for our souls? Well though anger is a normal human emotion I mean after all look at young children. They get angry

very quickly sometimes, but they also get over it very quickly. So anger in and of itself isn't necessarily the problem. The problem is that

we hang on to our anger and we don't let it go. And then anger becomes like a poison that instead of hurting others, it really hurts

ourselves.

And the main difficulty with anger, which we all know, is that anger is very negative.

Think of it like a really negative energy

that instead of releasing, we just hang on to.

And since we're hanging on to it, it isn't that people around us are affected by it.

We are, because we're the ones hanging on to this anger and letting that negative energy build

up inside of us.

And until we release it, it's just going to keep eating away at us.

I mean, if we've lived long enough, we've all known very angry people and they're just not going to be happy people.

They're not, there's no way.

Their lives are miserable and their lives are just permeated with that hate.

And when we're with them, we can walk away from that hate, but they can't.

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