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Anger is best explained as an emotional state that varies in strength from mild irritation, to intense fury and rage. It’s a natural and productive human emotion; a response to a threat that provides strong, frequently aggressive feelings, which allows us to fight back and protect ourselves. As such, in the days of prehistoric man, experiencing anger was important to survival.

However in more recent times, we sometimes feel anger when we are being hurt; our personal space is violated; our desires are being ignored; or, during numerable other eventualities where our expectations have not been met. In these scenarios we express anger as a way to regain control of the situation and in that sense; it’s a natural state.

Most people experience a healthy dose of anger many times during their lives. However anger becomes a difficulty when it is experienced too frequently, too intensely, or for lengthy amounts of time.

Too Frequently – most people make a response to difficult everyday occurrences by experiencing comparatively healthy emotions like stress, disappointment, hurt or even fear; we reserve anger for the really significant eventualities in life. However for many of us, we tend to respond to everyday scenarios by right away getting angry and it becomes an all too frequent response, affecting our family and friends, our careers and the quality of our lives.

Too Intensely – even when most of us get angry, the level of anger is mostly restricted to raising the voice and expressing 1 or 2 choice words. However for many of us we find our anger is way more intense, and when we get wrapped up in it, it leads to pointless levels of aggression and quite possibly violence.

Too Long – and even when normal people get angry to a intense level, as a result of venting the anger, they often find it subsides within a short space of time. However for a few of us, once we are into the cycle, it’s hard to get out of. Even after the situation is over, we may stay caught in a loop, poring over agitated thoughts and images for no productive purpose, leaving us with a lingering sense of anger, victimization, and disappointment that penetrates us and those around us for hours, possibly days.

And when we experience anger that is too frequent, too intense or too long lasting, there are damaging effects on our health – because anger involves the activation of many physical arousal systems, anger causes a real stress on your body. New scientific studies have discovered that re-occurring anger increases health risks to a number of illnesses, including heart problems and hypertension.

For those among us who realise we’re wounding and pushing away the people in our lives, damaging our family, social and work relations, not to mention our health, there is a plethora of self-help material out there on the internet. But does it work? Well that is something that you are going to have decide by yourself. But here’s the point, the main source of anger related issues is the sub or unconscious mind. Anger isn’t a conscious response – if you can consciously decide to stop getting angry, would you not simply decide to do so? The reality is that this would be a little like asking your waking mind to forget how to ride a bike. You could not could you, even though you tried to? And that’s the point, whilst all these helpful systems might have some merit, they don’t cope with the real source of the issue, they do not access the unconscious mind, the reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that sit outside of our conscious awareness and influence all our behaviors and experiences.

Through hypnosis , we can access the subconscious mind and harness its acute power to reprogram habitual patterns of behaviour, for example responding angrily to everyday situations.

Hypnosis bypasses the conscious mind and creates an alternative state of consciousness in which attention is focused away from the present fact. Rather like day dreaming, attention can then be focused towards particular images, thoughts, perceptions, feelings, motivations and behaviors which may help change our habitual responses and learned behaviors.

Our body already has natural mechanisms to handle stress and control feelings like anger, but occasionally they need help in operating properly. Hypnosis helps you do that – it enrolls the assistance of your unconscious mind in making the mandatory long term changes for you to be free of anger, allowing you to be altogether more relaxed and in control in all those circumstances in which you used to lose control.

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