The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Primal Rage, How to Manage Unproductive Anger.

If you ask the average person on the street to list primal emotions,

I'd venture that anger would be one of the first examples they offer.

I think we automatically connect a primal state with anger because anger's power is more reminiscent of instinct than sentiment.

It's an emotion that can instantaneously engulf our entire being, a red-hot feeling that can send all rational thought and genuine self-interest

down the toilet in a nanosecond. While other emotions have their physical hold, anger can

grip us in a way few others can.

Fear, the other instinctual emotion, generally lifts with a clear, even euphoric release,

as long as it's situational, not a product of neuroses.

Anger, however, doesn't die so easily.

Like the embers in a fire, it needs ample time to fade. The visceral energy

of anger is remarkably durable. We kid ourselves if we think we're immune to its inherent human

force. That said, how can we keep it rained in enough not to thwart our own well-being,

not to mention anyone else's? How can we control or manage it or even channel it?

In short, how can we have and express anger without getting burned by it?

Evolutionarily speaking, anger is the stuff of warfare, murder, revenge, and sabotage.

And yet, it's also the boundary setter. Watch even the most devoted

mother dog with her pups, and eventually she'll offer a snarl if one gets annoying or if she

needs a rest. At its best, anger is a self-protective instinct. We warn those who would try to mess

with our kin to back off. And most socially astute, reasonable people, and even many animal predators, will retreat

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