Handle Anger

When you find anger rising within you,

• you may withdraw from the place to provide time for cooling your emotions. Or
• you may drink a glass of cold water and sit quietly in a place. Or,
• take a brisk walk for a mile to get over your anger. Or,
• stand before a mirror and look at your face.

By any one of these methods, your anger will gradually come down.

• Do not, however,
  • stay near the person who has provoked your anger,
  • because there is no limit to what anger may lead you to.
• Owing to anger and agitation,
  • the blood gets heated up.
  • It takes three months for the blood to cool down. Within that period,
  • the nerves become weaker and even the
  • blood cells get destroyed.
    • Weakness is aggravated and the
    • memory power is reduced.
    • Old age sets in prematurely.
• All the aberrations that we witness today among men arise from anger.
• -Puttaparti Satya Sai Baba in the Divine Discourse, Apr 22, 1985.