What is anger anyway?
Anger is a normal emotion like happiness, sadness, joy or excitement. Like all emotions anger consists of four components: 1. an emotional tone 2. cognitive processes 3. physical reactions 4. behaviours When people simply “get angry”, they often do not understand why they are angry or how to use the anger constructively. It is possible to have a healthy relationship with anger, the same way you can with all emotions i.e., joy, happiness, etc. Most of the time people focus their anger on the object, i.e., the situation or person that triggered the anger rather than using their anger to recognize their underlying problems or concerns. By learning to identify the components of anger, it is possible to recognize how you use anger and how you get stuck in your anger. Below is a description of each of the components: 1. The emotional tone is the feeling that goes along with any emotion. The emotional tone is most often either positive or negative. Anger is generally associated with a negativ
