How to Have a Healthy Tantrum

          Children are so much more in touch with their feelings. When their frustration levels get too high, they freely express themselves with a temper tantrum to release it.  They explode like a thunderstorm, and then like a storm, it passes and the sun comes out and they feel better. But then we grow up and learn how to suppress our emotions. Emotional suppression creates disruptions in our energy that have been attributed to a host of health issues, from cancer to insomnia to chronic pain.  Even the conservative Center for Disease Control estimates 85% of all diseases has an emotional basis.


          Just as children do, adults also need some form of release as part of a healthy lifestyle. But you can't just drop on the floor at your workplace in front of your boss, or at home in front of your kids and start kicking and screaming when things don't go your way! What can you do when life becomes too much? Have a "tantrum" where and when its acceptable to do so.

     -- Choose a time and place where you are alone or with someone who unconditionally accepts you
     -- Give yourself permission to express yourself freely without judging or censoring.
     -- Stomp your feet or roll around on the floor.
     -- Say out loud everything you've been holding inside.
     -- Be as childish as you want.

          Allow yourself to do this for 10-20 minutes. Let the storm explode. Don't hold anything back. It will pass. No storm can last forever. Unless you try and contain it and suppress it. Then the effects of this frustration can literally last forever!

      How long do you want to hold on to it?  Want to let it go?  Then have a tantrum!  Just do it in an appropriate way.