Many have actually experienced it first-hand. It is a frightening to think of yourself being a victim. It is terrifying to hear how someone's anger over minor driving infractions can turn them into murderers. Besides wrecking relationships and jobs, anger also negatively affects our physical health. The medical profession says that it can tax our immune system, contribute to headaches and migraines, and even cause severe gastrointestinal symptoms, hypertension, and coronary artery disease.
Anger is a natural and healthy emotion when it is expressed appropriately .
I hope you do feel anger when a child is abused, used in a drug deal, or abducted. God gave us this healthy emotion to deal with all kinds of injustice. But, just like the all the other drives that God has given us, he wants us to manage and control it carefully. I want to discuss five steps for managing your anger in this column, and next month I want to discuss discovering your style of anger management. In God's very first family Cain's anger leads to the murder of his brother.