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What does ira even mean?
The word describes rage and anger.
Ira is often described as negative, but why shouldn't we be able to be angry about things that make us furious, shouldn't we live out our feelings?
rage.
This is also why the sentence: " Have you calmed down yet?" is rightfully infuriating. Anger isn't a temper tantrum, someone getting insulted by something that is not even a big deal. They feel deeply wronged and if expressing this is wrong, then maybe you're the problem.
Friederike Haug
Anger is, just like any other a feeling that can be a constructive one. It should be felt and not repressed, Anger tells us there is something wrong and gives us energy to change, to long for change.
Trust in government
Political anger lowers citizens’ trust in the national government, causing people to view it with hostility, scepticism and outright contempt. Due to the increasing national focus on politics, that anger is often directed squarely at the federal government, not state or local officials.
Americans’ trust in government has been declining for six decades.
Scholars have argued that party affiliation determines trust in government. When one’s preferred party controls government, that trust is high; when the opposing party has power, it’s low.
My research finds sustained anger is a more likely suspect for Americans’ diminished trust in government.
Though American political anger has many sources, it was Ronald Reagan’s 1981 assertion that “government is not the solution to our problem, the government is the problem” that really began to solidify Republicans’ anger at the federal government.
Anger with the government is not simply a conservative phenomenon. Liberals are mad, too – usually because they believe the government is not doing enough to address racial and social inequalities. That anger, too, is in full bloom today.
Angry people tend to negatively judge the source of their anger. So when politicians continually label each other with crude epithets and infuriate people by taking – or not taking – certain actions, the public responds by lowering their evaluations of Washington.
Eventually, they question what government is even capable of.
Source:
Angry Americans:
How political rage helps campaigns but hurts democracy
Choose the statement, you would mostly likely join a protest in.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
Sylvia Plath
Anger can exist as a destructive emotion, as blind violence, like vandalism. Anger makes us forget rationality and throws all logic out the window.
Friederike Haug
My all-time favourite quote is from the film The Godfather, “never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.” Most people have angry thoughts while they are engaging in vicious self-destructive behaviours. For example, picture a man aggressively driving and running red lights, and getting dangerously close to the cars in front of him while honking like a maniac. This man is engaging in immature and dangerous behaviours. He is acting out of control and I can guarantee you in his head are thoughts of anger.
Feelings of anger can turn into self-destructive behaviours because they lead to what I like to call, permissive thoughts. Permissive thinking allows a person to engage in behaviours that are unproductive, damaging, and result in negative consequences. The thoughts sound like, "I have been done wrong so I deserve to do this!" or "I have a right to be angry and I am entitled to do X, Y, and Z!" For example, a woman finds out that her husband told her a lie and so she decides to go binge drinking. All the while she is thinking, “that stupid, son of a bitch, who does he think he is? I am going to drink until I don’t think about him, and I deserve this after all the hell he has put me through!” This woman is angry at her husband and her thoughts give her permission to engage in her compulsive behaviour. Any negative consequences that result from this behaviour will fall back on the woman, not her husband.
The best an individual can do is to feel anger while controlling their behaviour. I strongly recommend to my clients to feel anger and "catch" permissive thoughts. Then, take those permissive thoughts and manipulate them into motivational thoughts. For instance, the lady whose husband lied to her can take her permissive thought and turn it into, "I am so mad at my husband that there is no way on earth that I will let that son of a bitch push me back into drinking."
Using anger as fire to fuel yourself into success is the best approach. Most people do not like feeling angry and often express it in ways that are unproductive and damaging. Anger is one of my favourite emotions because I have learned how to use it to help make my life better. In fact, if channelled correctly, anger is the emotion that can potentially lead to the most successful behaviour. With daily and persistent practice, anger can fuel you to the top!
Vanessa Grass
