"When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs." Thomas a Kempis(1)
Respiration deepens; the heart beats more rapidly; the arterial pressure rises; the blood is shifted from the stomach and intestines to the heart, central nervous system and the muscles; the processes of the alimentary canal cease; sugar is freed from the reserves in the liver; the spleen contracts and discharges its contents of concentrated corpuscles, and adrenaline is secreted.
What does this describe? It is the physiological manifestation of anger as given by Dr. Walter Cannon, a researcher at Harvard University.(2)
Anybody can get angry even the best of us. In an article entitled "Only in America," Fortune magazine recorded this humorous, but tragic, story illustrating this very point:
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