Hey, do you ever feel really angry?

Like that pent-up animal emotion of wanting to shake your fists and scream. Today I feel really angry and I thought when the anger came

over me which has been building for some weeks I thought to myself I'm just not up to doing a

podcast and I was not sure how I would do my Friday journal later today and I wanted to not follow through with those

commitments. I'll just get my tea I've got a beautiful cup of tea here and I felt I needed the space to explore these emotions.

And then I thought, no, I'm going to do it with you.

I'm going to process my anger while I'm speaking with you.

So with your permission, today we're going to look at anger.

The interesting thing is that we're animals so anger is a primal emotion and the purpose of anger is to vitalize us or energize us for fight or flight. The adrenaline produced as part of the anger

process is produced so that we can be ready to fight or flight.

Now with fight or flight, it's not a reasonable process.

It's not a process where we sit down and kind of talk about it.

It's a, let's go, let's go now, process, let's get out of here or let's fight.

So primarily, from a primal point of view, anger is about safety.

It's about when we used to be hunters and gatherers wandering the earth, anger was about

keeping the tribe safe. So it's a limbic response. When I say limbic

the limbic part of the brain which is the knee jerk part of the brain and the

reactive animal part of the brain, the reactive animal part of the brain.

So anger is there quick, let's fight or let's run away quickly and then we can

regroup and be reasonable later. So the positive of anger

is that vitalizes you or energizes you into movement, which can be good. The negative of it is it affects or hinders your ability to think clearly most of the time.

Anger can be motivating and that motivation is good.

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