part two: fighting back
our natural protective feelings of outrage and substitutes a sense of
deservedness. But outrage is vital, as it instructs our immune system
to retaliate, and gives us the passion and strength to fight back.
The problem with outrage is how to focus this tremendous energy so that
it empowers us rather than alienates us. Getting angry with those who
are supporting us, our doctor, our
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employer, our partner, our family, even our medication, is likely to
do us more harm than good. So how can we let off steam without hurting
ourselves or those around us?
How? Exercise and outrage, that's how
Outrage literally prepares our bodies to fight back. Our muscles tighten,
our breathing rate and heart rate increase, and our blood pressure rises.
Our whole body tightens up like a powder keg ready to explode. Exercise
is one of the best ways to release this passion and disperse this powerful
energy throughout our body, leaving us feeling strong, energised, in charge
and alive again.
Outrage is our passion to live. Whenever our survival is threatened, this
emotion is released to energise us, protect us, and help us fight back,
or run for our lives. It is a vital emotion, and one to be mastered rather
than feared.
If we don't release this emotional tension when we get stressed, the danger is
