Well, anger in response to a threat is probably just an offshoot of my sympathetic nervous system reaction - increase heart rate, breathing, etc.
You think? IDK. I don't think anger is usually just a physical reaction - it's an emotion. And there's usually pain underneath it.
Originally Posted By: Harrier
Anger probably allows me to harness something inside that othe reactions can't.
The flipside being that anger allows people to AVOID feeling something painful, that the other reactions can't 'protect' us from. Anger sometimes gives people the illusion of feeling powerful, less helpless, and more in control, at the times when they feel the least so.
The problem of course is that it's an illusion. It's not real. Being real and honest with our deeper feelings in our relationships, is what gives us (as a team with our partners, of course) more power, more control and more influence over the direction our lives take and the kind of people and partnership we want to have. Just my perspective.
I cannot complain for not receiving from others, that which I've never asked them for.
