Gage Your Rage

Gage Your Rage “managing your emotions”

We feel a host of emotions all the time, but many times we aren’t sure where they come from all we know is that we are sad, happy, or mad. The truth of the matter is this, if we do not know the cause it’ll be hard to either keep those feelings coming or to get them to stop, and by stop that could either mean completely or just to redirect your energy towards something different.

Here is an example of what I mean, if every time you eat pizza you bawl uncontrollably, bum-rushed with feelings of happiness and sadness all at once could it be its not just the smell of the melted cheese and the taste of that savory pepperoni that’s oh so good, maybe it’s the fact your grandma always took you to a pizza parlor on the weekends. Furthermore, we all have triggers, /ˈtrɪɡ·ər/ according to Cambridge Dictionary a trigger is a cause of something starting. Sometimes our triggers are developed during childhood; when mama use to buy you candy or when you’re your brother use to hide all of your toys. See, triggers don’t have to be bad you just need to know what they are, where they come from and what comes from them. When you learn your triggers, you get in control, you’ll recognize emotions and you become the boss of your life. Umhm, this is what I mean by gaging your RAGEEE!

Bro, remember what your daddy said to you, he told you that you could do anything so you start jumping off beds thinking you could fly lol, I mean you really believed it- every time daddy said those words you felt INVINCIBLE. Then, one day you fell and twisted your ankle. Weeks past after your ankle was healed and your daddy wanted you to try “flying” again so he sat you down to tell you to exactly how to “fly” safer, you were upset and didn’t listen because for whatever reason you were mad. You didn’t know why, it was something you couldn’t explain; daddy thought you was being rebellious and stubborn. It took several more spats, arguments, misunderstandings and misinterpretations because daddy was mad and disappointed in your responses and you were just mad and didn’t really know why. This incident, took a toll on the relationship. One day you came to grips with your emotions, you gaged your rage and realized you were so mad because you felt like daddy had lied, he told you, you could do anything and somehow you fell, he made you feel invincible and somehow for the first time in your life you felt pain, a sprained ankle. When you finally had the conversation with daddy he understood your EMOTIONS, he told you that son “I told you that you could do anything, because I knew that if you had one failed attempt, you would then have two- because I knew you would keep trying.”

Many times we think habits are normal or just a cultural thing, when really in cases we are traumatized. We’ve allowed horrible situations to define us and our entire families. Some may call it cycles, habits, tradition, or generational curses however you look at it, whatever term you use; if it isn’t healthy it needs to be stopped.

Gage you rage, take some time to reflect on your habits, your patterns, what exercises, or daily tasks bring out these certain emotions and why is that?!