Recent research at the Heart Math Institute has revealed a gap in our current understanding about how our bodies and minds work.  With studies of the heart and brain being monitored at the same time, it was noticed that the heart registers response to stimulus before the brain.  In fact it now appears that the heart literally tells the brain what to do/perceive.

This is in alignment with every known world philosophy.  Our heart matters. A happy heart (spirit=heart) means a happy, healthy mind and body.  Yet a  misguided, hardened heart (spirit) can create havoc in the mind and body.

In a recent study published earlier this year by the American Heart Journal; 785 men and women age 46-92, who had a baseline of freedom from cardiovascular disease were studied.  They were studied in videotaped interviews on how they responded to life and it’s challenges.  3 types of anger were studied:

Constructive Anger:  The emotion moved them to discussion and problem resolution.

Destructive Anger Justification:  Blaming others for ones anger over a life conflict.

Destructive Anger Rumination:  Stuffing one’s anger over a life conflict.

After a 10 year follow-up the men and women who displayed destructive anger justification for dealing with conflict in life were more than 30 % likely to develop cardiovascular disease.

So what is a constructive way to deal with anger?  Understand that anger as an emotion is a response to “frustrated desire”.  When I become personally responsible for my life, I asses the situation, determine what I am capable of and responsible for and I BRING IT.

I also release what I am not in charge of and be at peace with this.  I do all this from the context that the fulfillment of all desire is an internal and eternal state.  And I re-contextualize life’s many scenario’s, bringing my best, releasing the illusion of control fear and desire, knowing the ultimate all is LOVE and KINDNESS.  If it is to be , it is up to me! So BRING IT!!!

In Health & Service,

Dr. Roland F. Phillips BA, BS, D.C.