Anger can be a positive catalyst for change for ourselves and others when directed in the right way. The goal is not just a constructive release, but elimination of it. Yes, we have the responsibility and ability to control how we feel.
1. Self-regulate: Dismiss any spirit that would prompt you to injure any creature that the All creatures are in your stewardship to care for them.
2. Taking responsibility for your emotions will help you realize that you can change. If other people or events were, in fact, responsible for what we feel, we would not have the freedom nor ability to change—
3. How to change: Righteously judge another's actions. Discern the true nature of the act. Amazingly we do not get angry in the act of discerning. It’s when we judge and condemn another that we get angry and decide that he or she is bad. Forgive them. Consider you own ways of eliminating harmful impulses. Exercising patience and self-control is a life lesson. Cultivate an outward vs. inward mindset.
4. How to address another's behavior: Though it's our responsibility to stand up and tell another person that they were wrong but do it in the spirit of meekness and helping that other person to be better. When you do, show forth an increase of love towards that person so they don't think you're their enemy.
Some reasons why eliminating anger would be that acting out in anger may causes problems in society, personal relationships, and even in our own body. Anger creates excess acid in the stomach, inflammation of the stomach blood vessels and may cause headaches and hypertension. Suppressed anger may cause stomach ulcers. On the other hand, when we control our anger we may improve our relationships, increase our joy and happiness, and also enjoy better health.
How do you respond when someone responds to you in anger?
What can you do to respond differently to change their reaction?
Sources
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1980/02/the-case-against-anger?lang=eng
