4 Benefits of Letting Go of Your Right to Rage

Personal Coach and author, Sharon Cook listed four benefits of letting go of rage.

Improved physical health:

Anger activates the body for an immediate fight. While this activation can improve one's odds of beating (perhaps literally beating) an enemy, when it persists for too long, or happens too frequently, it wears away your health, including excess stomach acid, immune system dysfunction, and cardio-vascular problems. Letting go of your right to rage allows you to reclaim your right to good physical health.

Improved relationships with others

The same skills that help to manage anger (assertive communication and emotional intelligence), lead to improved relationships. When anger is kept and cherished, it often turns into resentment. This resentment can poison one's entire life. Attributed to Buddha is the saying "Holding on to resentment is like drinking poison and hoping that your enemy dies."

More positive outcomes attracted into your life

Focusing on life through the lens of anger causes one to see threats everywhere. Negative events become evidence that others cannot be trusted, that one is a victim. As any good life coach will tell you, this mindset leads to limitations and defeat, rather than positive outcomes and success.

A greater sense of peace and purpose and an easier time in being gentle with yourself

Being willing to forgive others, and practicing letting go of the past makes it much easier to forgive one's self. Practice accepting others and self-acceptance comes automatically. Cultivate a vengeful and judgmental attitude and self-hate will increase as well.

So it all boils down to what one desires in life: the "right" to be angry and the suffering that comes with it, or letting go of the "right" to be anger, and applying the skills of anger management to lessen your own anger and live a more abundant life.