Anger Is A Choice
Anger is an emotion we all experience. My spiritual and secular study, as well as my own life experience, has taught me of the reality of the fact that anger is not considered a primary emotion or instinctive response. It is a choice. Many people, myself included, have at one time or another felt that anger is a primary emotion as it is the first response we have to negative things that happen to us. Everybody feels anger at different times, to varying degrees. Indeed, this opinion is so common in modern society that new programs are created in anger management, and articles written on the upsides of anger. In his blog entitled “Anger Problems: A Smokescreen for Fear-Shame Phobia” posted in January 2009, Dr. Stosny broadly depicts anger problems as "a smokescreen for fear-shame phobia." The problem of anger is of vital importance not only in our daily emotional life, but in the genesis of most mental disorders, violence, spiritual development, and creat