How do I not get angry with others?

Bad mood?
This thought helps against unnecessarily bad mood

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Tired of being in a bad mood if it doesn't bring you anything? Then you should internalize the following thoughts very deeply …

There are many good reasons for a bad mood: nightmares, hypoglycaemia, bloating, overwork, boredom, underwork, monotony, winter – and a whole host of others. In most cases there is something we can do to get rid of our grumpiness, such as: B. Eat an apple (this usually helps against hypoglycaemia, bloated stomach and boredom at the same time). And so a bad mood makes perfect sense.

Bad mood as senseless self-punishment

Sometimes other people are also responsible for our bad mood. The friend who texts you five minutes before your date that she will be half an hour later. The colleague who didn't get his job done on time while you pulled your own leg in order to deliver properly. Or the supermarket customer who races past you from behind in his full car when a new till is opened and condemns you – with your jar of jam and a packet of butter – to stand in line for another 10 minutes. Do such experiences spoil your mood? But they shouldn't! Because, as an Arabic proverb goes:

Getting angry with someone means punishing yourself for other people's mistakes.

Anger is a negative emotion that alarms us and indicates things that are not going according to our will and our imagination. It makes sense, like grumpiness, when it causes us to either change something or change our ideas. If, on the other hand, our anger just spoils our mood and makes us feel worse than before, it doesn't bring us anything, it just costs us valuable energy and life. In this respect, anger about the wrongdoing of other people – in contrast to hunger and boredom – is a bad reason for a bad mood. Instead of letting our anger boil and simmer, we should rather show it and communicate openly, if others are responsible for it. Because only then does the penalty hit the right one! ?

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