Let's not forget that people are emotional, and children are even more so. Positive and negative emotions are essential to adapt to the society in which we are. It is essential to help our children manage these emotions, and in particular anger.
Chemical process in the face of anger attacks
It is important that children identify your emotions. To help you identify, name and work with them, we recommend the book Emocionario, although there are also other resources.
Going back to the fits of anger. In short, when we get angry, the amygdala, the center of emotional processing, sends a distress signal to the hypothalamus. This in turn sends epinephrine, adrenalina, to the entire nervous system and to the entire body. Adrenaline prepares the body to face a threat, increases the heart rate and heightens the senses. It seems that the heart goes faster, the muscles tense, the breathing is agitated and shallow, we feel restless ... these processes are the same no matter how old we are. From the time we are babies to the elderly, anger involves this process, the way in which we handle it will elevate or qualify these responses.
In general, children prone to anger attacks will also not have an appetite, they will show nervous, with difficulty in sleep, which in turn causes more anger, confusion, frustration, is the whiting that bites its tail.
Consequences of anger attacks
All the emotions are essentialAnyone is admitted, but this does not imply accepting any behavior that causes this emotion. The child must learn to identify anger, manage it and be responsible for any consequence of their behavior due to an attack of anger.
Un exercise very easy that you can work with him to explain this is the following. Show him a perfect, ironed, clean blank sheet, and now roll it into a ball, and even get it a little dirty. Let him see this process. Then unwrap the page, no matter how hard you try it will not be as before, the marks of "anger" have remained. Reflect on this with him. As for any attack of anger, which is not handled well, it will have consequences on their physical and mental health, and also on the family's coexistence.
You have to help the child to do not manifest aggressive behaviors like tantrums, hitting, throwing toys, breaking things ... when angry and replacing them with other types of responses. Of course the child must show his anger but, from the assertiveness, calm and respect.
Organs that are affected
Anger triggers a series of responses in the body's organs. In itself, anger, as an emotion is neither positive nor negative, it is the management that we do with it, the emotions that cause an emotional kidnapping or that put our children out of control are what will take them to the side or other.
We tell you which organs are most affected by anger attacks if they are recurrent. The immune system he is weakened by outbursts of anger. According to Jaques Martel, in his work "Great dictionary of ailments and diseases", those diseases ending in "itis" they are usually related to anger or frustration. In the case of children, it can be tonsillitis, colitis, cystitis, gastroenteritis, laryngitis, otitis ...
According to Chinese medicine, the organ related to anger is the liver. Among its functions are the detoxification of the blood and the production of bile, the digestion of food and the storage of energy.