Wellness

Anger becomes a problem when it is allowed to fester and boil over without intervention and/or remediation. When this happens, it can get out of control, because having been bottled up, it can in the words of the late Renaissance Poet, Langston Hughes, "explode like a heavy load."  The consequences of out-of-control anger cannot often time cannot be reversed, unless reconciliation is able to take place.

There are many people who suffer from unrequieted anger, which can push them away from their greater good, and maybe even pushe them toward hurting themselves and/or others.

The world needs a better answer, not something like Bullying, (which, I believe is a sort of anger) which is a mask. Bullies don't care about hurting or being unfair to others. This is actually a cover-up. Wherever we find bullying, we know that somewhere something went wrong.  Somewhere there was hurt; somewhere there was unforgiveness; somewhere there was pain; and somewhere, someone did not get or receive the love they needed in order to have a more healthy disposition and attitude towards themselves and others.

In order to be well, and feel more whole, people need to feel that someone cares, and is concerned about them; and someone who set out to show them this,  by giving them unconditional positive regard. This is how anger can be deflated.

Perhaps Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and others like them were spot on in their moving toward a better way to handle anger, and make this a better world, as they went forth to model, practice, and demonstrate the power and acts of the ministry of reconciliation.  Come let us walk together, without anger.  Our wellness depends upon it.