How to control anger with Mindfulness

All at some point in our lives, we have been exposed to situations that cause us frustration and that are aversive.

They are situations in which we feel as if everything is beyond our control; then we experience, without being very aware of it, an increase in general muscle tone, greater tension in certain groups of muscles such as the jaw and masseters.

Our breathing becomes more agitated and our heart begins to beat more frequently., our adrenaline is increased like our muscular strength.

Our lips become tight and contracted and you experience a dilation of the nostrils; everything becomes cloudy before our eyes, and then we feel a burning in the belly as if it were vertigo.

Our mind goes blank and our brain emotional our brain beats the race rational and then we are about to explode or we end up exploding in an attack of ...

Have you ever experienced this but have not been very aware of each of those sensations?

Well, let me tell you that you have been a victim of the consequences of one of the most basic emotions but at the same time most important for our survival: the wrath.

Anger is physiologically experienced in the belly, as Vertigo, curious right?

Then you ask yourself: but if anger sometimes leaves unfortunate consequences in our interpersonal relationships, How can you not think that it is a negative emotion?

Combining a little more on the subject of emotions, these are all necessary for the correct balance of our body.

Emotions popularly labeled as negative: anger, fear, sadness, They are not in themselves negative, the negative is the way in which, when experienced in our organism, we let them take control of the present situation and cross the threshold of what is socially allowed, then we realize that there is indeed something we must do.

Managing Anger: Taking Charge of the Situation

Third generation therapies have begun to be used with a progressive expansion in Psychotherapy and also at a more popular level.

The Mindfulness, One of these therapies, is already taught compulsory in schools in countries such as the United States and is increasingly known in Spain.

Mindfulness helps us "anticipate" emotions such as anger, trying that we get closer to the knowledge of the physiology of the same and then that we delve into the way it acts in our body, but above all, that we see how it begins to unfold through our organism in its first phases, thus, through our rational brain, learn to "put the brakes" on it when it is necessary to do so

The regular practice of Mindfulness helps you to have a greater knowledge of yourself through meditation and concentration.

Mindfulness is not relaxation, Mindfulness is not pure meditation, Mindfulness guides you to be more concentrated and attentive to what is happening right in the present moment, without judgments or evaluations, an "everything is fine".

It helps you see chaotic situations in a more natural way, changing the judgments you make of things and changing your perspective, so that at key moments do not feel identified with thoughts or emotions that do not belong to you.

Remember the words of an old Quimbaya proverb: "Your emotions and thoughts are visitors, they are passengers; in the depths of your being the external universe dances to the rhythm of your interior; your essence is only peace and harmony rotating in unison with the perfect flow of that natural force that we call LIFE"