Benefits of having anger as an emotion

There are many values to feeling angry. I recently read an article stating over 10 reasons why it’s good get angry.

Anger has a reputation of being negative when compared with other positive emotions such as happiness or enthusiasm.

Benefits of having anger as an emotion

Did you know that many people believe that we would be better off without anger as an emotion?

However many including psychologists, brain scientists and mental health professionals suggest that anger has valuable qualities and can be beneficial to us as humans.

A few of the benefits of anger stated in the article include:

• Designed to promote survival
• It provided a sense of control
• Motivates us to solve problems
• Drives us towards goals
• Can lead to self improvement

I’ve always really liked the idea of having a way that our students can release built up anger in a healthy and fun way.

A couple of weeks ago 2 of our students were struggling to manage their emotions whilst at Running Deer. At points I felt like they both had some feelings of anger.

We went for a walk which didn’t seem to help until we came across the pond which had frozen over. The boys instantly reverted to being child like, picking up giant blocks of the ice and smashing it to the ground, harder each time. The pair were laughing a lot and enjoyed breaking the ice for quite some time. I watched their facial expressions, noticing how satisfying it was for each of them to break something!

When we left the area I felt like the boys seemed a little calmer.

Soo next time you feel angry go and smash some Ice…or plates (with permission of course haha)