Your memory does not know the difference between the past, today and the future. They are all the same to your body, where memory resides, lodged away in the tissues of your being. Whatever memories you are thinking about are affecting your body now, producing the same chemical and muscular reactions you had at the time of the recalled event. Endorphins come with good memories, toxins with bad - so keep it good.
Stop now, and relax your body completely (don't fall off the chair). When you are fully relaxed try to get angry, think of something that will get you riled - BUT do it without tensing any muscle.
Impossible? Keep it that way. Every time you feel the blood pressure starting to rise, the bile rising in your throat, dry anger biting at the back of your throat, do your utmost to relax, rid yourself of the tension in your muscles, and relax. Deep breathing can help, as can stopping any activitity to allow yourself to concentrate on relaxing.
I just wish George W Bush could follow my advice - watch that man walk, did you ever see anyone more tense?
If we're not careful he'll be invading Iran next, and that will give him a bloody nose. And the rest of us.
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