-- Dear Ellie,
I was in quite a bit of pain most of the day
and finally decided to just start banging on the
wall and getting really mad at my parents and others
for all kinds of past stuff. This time I was more
angry than sad, and when it was all over the pain
in my intestines began to diminish and this morning
it is completely gone! --maybe physical pain is a
trigger for anger wanting to be released.
Carol

Dear Carol,
Good for you. Pain isn't directly a trigger of underlying
anger. It's usually caused by toxins impinging on nerve
endings, and what needs to happen is a detox of the toxins.
When you get angry and do some work of releasing and
redirecting, you are reving up the sympathetic nervous
system, which is in charge of detoxing, so this helps
to get rid of the toxins and relieve the pain. When you
think about a baby screaming 'ouch,' you can see it's a
natural response, part to the fight or flight
reaction. If I bite my tongue or stub my toe, I yell.
Ellie