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Time and again, as a consulting healthcare speaker, someone will unburden their heart to me concerning their problematic anger. From these discussions it’s clear that they consider anger to be somehow intrinsically negative. Sadly if you believe anger to be in some way “bad,” it’s improbable you’ll ever figure out how to deal with it in a productive way. This essential point is crucial to augmenting your overall emotional intelligence.

Anger can be, on occasions, an entirely appropriate response . It’s a power driving personal and organizational change. Anger can empower you to take the (often difficult) action vital to establish long-term change. So, first off, the initial reframe I want to suggest is that you don’t have difficulties with anger, you have a problem with mismanaged anger.

The next aspect to grasp is that anger can be aimed internally as well as externally. This “internal” rage can negatively affect your health. There is ample research to suggest that unsuccessfully controlled anger has detrimental biological consequences to the heart and lungs

It’s also very important that you appreciate anger management from a dual biological-psychological perspective. As an author and healthcare speaker, it’s clear that , for [...]