{"id":7461,"date":"2013-09-04T21:19:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T11:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7461"},"modified":"2013-09-04T21:19:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T11:19:13","slug":"7461","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7461","title":{"rendered":"Anger- Internal or External?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Facbook asked about anger, whether it releases negative energy externally or internally.<br \/>\nI replied:<br \/>\nSuppressing one&#8217;s emotions is not good.<br \/>\nPeople who do eventually explode.<br \/>\nSo NEVER little small things go uncommunicated until they build up within one.<br \/>\nYou cannot feel anger without having a diminished level of responsibility.<br \/>\nOne cannot be the adverse effect of an area of life without oneself first having done something similar to that area.<br \/>\nFeeling anger is taking on an opposition to that which one is angry. It is not senior to the situation so is therefore a weaker position.<br \/>\nPart of responsibility is the ability to withhold.<br \/>\nWhen one is angry is the worst time to communicate.<br \/>\nYou can almost never trust and angry man to speak the truth.<br \/>\nSo if one is feeling angry, one remedy is to spot times in one&#8217;s past when one has done similar things to the same or similar area or persons towards which one feels angry.<br \/>\nWhen one does, the anger subsides.<br \/>\nBut it takes courage and strength to do that.<br \/>\nAnd most people would much prefer to blame someone else.<br \/>\nSo I am not addressing most people.<br \/>\nI am addressing those who would like to grow and see things improve and have sufficient courage to move outside what is comfortable and step into the area where growth occurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Facbook asked about anger, whether it releases negative energy externally or internally. I replied: Suppressing one&#8217;s emotions is not good. People who do eventually explode. So NEVER little small things go uncommunicated until they build up within one. You cannot feel anger without having a diminished level of responsibility. One cannot be the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anger- Internal or External?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}