How Can Nutritional Balancing Help with Anger?
“Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.” ~James 1:19-20
for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.” ~James 1:19-20
Keep in mind that while Nutritional Balancing can help with all phases of what may be called the biochemistry of the anger response, it cannot entirely remove it and it shouldn't since anger isn't inherently evil. It is a normal and rational emotion and a healthy response to feeling wronged in some way, such as being violated, harassed, or disrespected.
In fact, there are things in this world that should make you angry. You should be outraged by people lying to you, deceive you and/or defraud you.
You should be also outraged by injustices, violence, poverty, greed, and immoral laws enacted by government officials. That anger is good; it’s a righteous anger. It’s the same anger that Jesus Christ felt during His ministry on earth.
Several Doctors of the Church who were canonized as Saints such as St. Jerome, St-Augustine, St. Basil the Great all had tempers. Saint Francis de Sale, bishop and Doctor of the Church, once claimed that it took him more than twenty years to learn to control his temper.
Thus the key is to learn to handle your emotions and not lash out on others unless your life is threatened. The word emotion itself comes from the Latin “emotere”, literally meaning “energy in motion”.
Now in terms of your biochemistry here's how Nutritional Balancing helps with quick anger:
1. Reducing Biochemical Triggers For Anger
For example, many people move into an anger reaction quickly due to iron or copper toxicity. These minerals often need to be replaced by more zinc and selenium, and doing this is not always easy.
Many people also have a deficiency of bioavailable calcium and magnesium, which can be corrected.
Calcium and magnesium tend to calm a person.
These and many other biochemical triggers can be reduced but not entirely removed, so that a person does not react as quickly with anger to certain situations.
2. Reducing The Intensity Of Anger Reactions If They Still Occur
By balancing body chemistry, often the stress response will be more proportionate and appropriate. As a result, this biological aspect of anger may be lessened in many cases.
3. Reducing Biochemical Reasons Why Anger Reactions Linger After The Cause Goes Away
Nutritional imbalances often keep a person in a fight-or-flight state long after the actual threat or attack is over.
Nutritional balancing is excellent to help move a person out of inappropriate and chronic stress reactions.
4. Reducing damage to the glands and nervous system caused by anger and helping to rebuild the nervous and glandular systems that have been harmed by angry responses.
5. Improving the recognition of situations, clarity of thinking and ability to reason through situations instead of reacting. This can help with all phases of anger and its outcomes.
6. Preventing and Correcting Unhealthy Suppression of Anger
This just causes anger to build up inside until one explodes.
For example, a calcium shell pattern is associated with suppression of emotions, and this can be remedied.
Many other biochemical patterns are associated with brain fog, confusion and can contribute to suppression and other inappropriate responses to stress.
7. Helping one adopt a more spiritual or calm attitude about others, about the world and about oneself so that one learns new responses to difficult conditions.
St. Francis de Sales advises that, to avoid the sin of anger, you must quickly ask God to give peace to your heart when you’re angered and then turn your thoughts to something else. This is the ultimate way to deal with anger.
Praying and doing the rosary are ways to deal with anger which can be a cover up for resentments, fear and sadness.
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