The Evolution Of Anger

We become a little irritated when we are stuck in a traffic jam and we
getting late to reach somewhere on time, or we are not going to complete a
particular task, as per our expectations or if someone whom we very well
know decides to ignore us today, for some reason or the other. If this seed
of irritation is watered, or in other words it is given the concentrated
energy of our attention i.e. we continue with the irritation for some time,
it slowly grows or evolves into frustration. Unless we take some
constructive inner action to stop the growth of the frustration and we keep
energizing it, it will grow or evolve into anger. And if this happens
regularly and we are not careful, it will become a habit, a part of our
personality, which we will finally come to believe is a natural part of
your nature. We will even think we were born with it. That it is 'in our
genes'. Every time we become angry we cause the production of certain
chemicals in our body and we also become addicted to those chemicals - then
we look for people and situations which will give us an excuse to get angry
so that we can have our daily dose of chemicals. We not only become
attached to material objects, people, ways of thinking, beliefs etc. - we
also become attached to our emotions like the emotion of anger. The regular
secretion of these chemicals will finally kill our body. We don't need to
kill our body. We need to accept that anger is never ever productive, know
that it is just not necessary to be angry with anyone or about anything,
know that it is entirely our own creation and know that we can choose a
different response. If we know and accept that, we will experience freedom
from it.