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Namaste
Many times I found myself making final decisions and doing thing accordingly while angry. In other curcumstances I would have stopped and thought about the concequences , and finally would have never done whatever I do in an agry state.
How does it work? What networks are firing in the brain in the state of anger and how they cancel the networks and patterns previously created? Sometimes the things that I do in an angry state are the best things to do, and I never do them when thinking clearly. How can I reach the conclusions I reach while angry , without being actually angry?
Does all this mean that the absolute truth is in nature's basic laws of survival and the human conscious mind can't overcome them, and actually is the main obstacle on the way to reaching the truth?
Guest_rhymer_*
The best answer I can of is that we should not presume that only one area of the brain is active when we are angry.
Another area of the brains thinking processes, which is inbuilt or developed by the individual is of an inhibitory nature, programmed to kick in when other thinking areas are developing what may be dangerous or silly responses to situations. Sometimes one area wins, sometimes the inhibitory area wins.

I hae noticed when doing crosswords with my wife, that the normal inhibitory function of regulation of our level of sound when speaking gets beaten when a word answer suddenly comes to mind foir a puzzle question. That answer is invariably shouted, not just spoken!
maximus242
Chemical imbalances can often create violent moodswings in both male and female. Obviously the first assumption for females if their constantly changing hormones and it is true (PMS), but also an excess amount of testosterone is one of the primary causes for unprovoked or mildly provoked anger. Testostorone is helps gives us our strength (testostorone is in both make and female) but we also can become very angry and irrational under the influence of excess testostorone (teenagers are renowned for their moodswings) this anger is sometimes almost uncontrolable. To cool off anger it is often recommended to go walking or running, the idea is to release endophines into your brain (sort of like happy pills that are produced by your body) these endorphines are good if you are finding yourself in a state of uncontrolable anger and they are an excellent natural counter to anger. So next time you feel yourself getting angry or are depressed a good jog or walk will help bring you out of it.
Namaste
Thank you, Rhymer and Maximus.
Maximus, I do use physical activities and obviously yoga to get a hand on all my negative emotions. Actually, I rarely experience anger, but I noticed that when I do, I make fast and firm decisions much easier then I do when I'm in other state of mind. So this side of anger is the one that fascinates me, and your answer about the testosterone action suited me exactly fine(T gives us strength...do you mean mental strength and being decisive as well as physical strength? ...And makes us very irritable in the same time).
If so, I may presume that testosterone is involved in the pharmacology of anger somewhere...downstream to the hypophysis and pituitary and I will certainly google it. I am very interested to figure out how can I evoke the positive effects of rage (mostly, being decisive) without getting the destructive effects. There must be some way of mental training ....
Anyway, I'll check the hormones pathway and the ways of modulating them... Thanks for an idea!
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Rhymer, thank you for giving me one more thing to think about:)) Or, actually, to recall Kandell and Swartz's Principles of Neuroscience ))) The chapter about memory and the things that suddenly pop into our conscience.
maximus242
oh and another idea if ur into the whole overcoming emotions through mental prowess, best thing i can recommend is either hop into the psychology forums and me n lucid can give you advice on a trigger that will make you instantly happy (various meathods can be used for this) or you can do mediataion and breathing exercises. For the meditation I would recommend you imagine yourself getting angry and then taking control of your emotions, this visualization will help you when you do get angry. With the breathing I know of one exercise that will put you into a meditation like state it goes as follows:

1. Breath in for 6 heart beats (feel your pulse if you cant tell your heart beats)
2. Hold Breath for 3 beats
3. Breath out for 6 beats
4. Hold Breath for 3 beats
5. Repeat
Namaste
Thanks , Maximus, and I will be glad to receive any links and tips, even if I won't use them all the time I will have fun trying them.
Thank you for the breathing technique. I actually asked my kundalini yoga teacher today about bringing the best out of anger and he gave me a meditation of 7 minutes of tapping on the floor with opened palms and shouting "Har!" (Meaning "God"in sanskrit).
This thing seemed like something that would both bring out the energy of aggression and maybe "wear down" the impulsive destructive power of anger....not that this is a sort of mental technique, but silencing your mind by meditation of any kind sometimes can be more helpful then going entangled into all the thoughts.
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