Anger and Cancer: Understanding the Connection
From the office of Dr. Laurence Magne, author of www.cancer-free-for-life.com
People get angry. Anger is an emotion and shouldn’t be ignored or denied. It is hard to believe that there could be a connection between anger and cancer, though. Too many people seem to believe that “being positive” requires never feeling anger or any other emotion. In reality, the most positive thing you can do with anger is admit that you are experiencing it and release it.
Denying anger requires that you suppress it, which puts an incredible amount of stress on your body and immune system. The effects of this suppression have been shown to increase your likelihood of cancer due to anger, as well as a host of other illnesses.
Because anger is an extremely powerful emotion, it won’t allow itself to be completely suppressed; it will come out, usually in the most nonproductive way possible.
Studies have been conducted in which a group of happy individuals and a group of angry individuals were exposed to a cold virus. The results showed that the angry people got sick while they happy people stayed healthy.
It doesn’t matter if you maintain the healthiest diet in the world, exercise regularly and do everything else possible to stay healthy: bottling up your anger suppresses your immune system and makes you much more susceptible to cancer.
The actual emotion of anger isn’t nearly as dangerous as the suppression of it. With that in mind, it’s important to release your anger. There are a number of safe and effective ways to release anger and return yourself to a state of calmness and serenity with the world around you, avoiding the onset of cancer.
The first step is realizing that it is okay to feel angry. It is all too common in our society to feel uncomfortable with anger because society does not seem to condone it. In reality, what is socially unacceptable is the way anger is often expressed. The longer it is bottled up, the more likely it is to be expressed in a negative way. Don’t allow yourself to add to your stress by feeling guilty about feeling angry.
For many people, some sort of physical release greatly aids in the expelling anger. Punching a pillow, for instance, is often recommended as a safe and healthy release. Any sort of physical release can be very helpful in getting rid of anger as long as it done with the full and conscious intention of releasing the anger.
In other words, don’t just go through the motions of pounding your fists into a pillow. Instead, consciously experience the anger in all of it intensity. It may help to relive the experience mentally or to listen to specific music. If you don’t put your mind fully into the physical activity, you will find that the anger wasn’t completely released.
It isn’t helpful to hurt anyone else in the process of relieving anger. You can release your anger at another person without ever involving that person. This doesn’t mean you should be a doormat, let people walk all over you and then go home and beat up your bedding. Don’t be afraid to be assertive and forthright when dealing with people, so that the situation causing the anger can be resolved. Just know that, ultimately, you will be healthier and more balanced if you deal with the extreme anger privately, as hurting another person will usually lead to other stress-inducing emotions such as guilt, regret and worry.
Our emotions and our bodies are entirely interconnected. Processing negative emotions like anger as fast as possible will bring you one step closer to avoiding cancer. With all the work your immune system is already doing, there is no reason to add to its burden by carrying anger around or by trying to pretend that you don’t experience it.
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