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When I looked a little more carefully it became apparent that anger wasn't something that is built up inside of me, which I could 'let out' and get rid of. There was nothing in which anger could be bottled up. The process of letting anger out was actually the process by whichmore anger was produced. So the best way to get rid of anger is to clamyourself down but suppressing it. It's a way of taming your mind. See your anger for what it is and then you can see yourself for what you are. One must adopt a philosophy of life that is based on Brownian Thought, “Good to forgive, best to forget.”

In JAPAN, they teach children a very simple method to control anger. They say, whenever you are angry, abstain from doing anything and start taking deep breaths, and then it is impossible for you to get angry. There are two reasons. If you are consciously taking deep breaths, then anger cannot express itself, as anger requires a different breathing pattern. And secondly yourmind shifts fromanger to breathing. You are no more focusing on anger; the body is not in a state to be angry and the mind has shifted its concentration to something else.

Everyone is angry because of the mad rush to reach somewhere or achieve something what the other doesn't have. Fire burns everything that comes in to its contact. The fire of anger cannot be controlled so easily. A lot of acceptance has to be developed first, acceptance of the way things are. People change them instead of

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