I get angry whenever I concentrate

All the happiness that you could ever enjoy is already inside you. It is hiding behind the thought patterns to do with fear, anger, jealousy, blame, guilt, resentment, stress, sorrow and you can let all of these negative thought patterns go.

Forgiveness and acceptance are tools that you can use at any time to help you find more peace in your life. Love is the healing force, love means more self respect, more self acceptance, more self appreciation, more self approval, becoming your own best friend, with unconditional support. You are gentle, you are caring, you are loving, you are powerful, you are capable, you are strong, you can believe in yourself more.

This video can help you find your studies easier.

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You know you and your average "happiness is in you" posts are getting annoying.

If you let go of the thought patterns to do with annoyance, then happiness could flow more easily in your life.

Flimsy wrote:You know you and your average "happiness is in you" posts are getting annoying.

Thank you, Flimsy. I am getting annoyed too, and the worst part is the person doing that kind of post here is some kind of "senior member" who has, obviously, made thousands of posts and I guess now has the right to spam with their own product and links to it. I have seen the same general message (worded differently each time, but same message and links) on other threads.

Hopefully this forum has a way to at least advise "elder" members. I am new and am hoping that the ones with "clout" aren't allowed to break rules the rest of us are held to.

Maybe you aren't used to working without getting instant praise or gratification for it.

I expect that's the case.

The fact is that in life you rarely get appreciation from others, and it's not like a computer game with fanfares and baubles every time you complete a small goal.
When you face that, you'll be most of the way to understanding why your well being comes from within, and why only you can forgive yourself for being a spoilt little sh**.

If this was a stock answer, would you feel better about it?

I have found this quick technique to help me calm down whenever I get angry, annoyed, or just get into a feeling of negativity - any emotion I don't want or like:

If you know EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), just tap all around the points. There's no need to say anything. Tap on the unwanted emotion until its charge reduces, and may after several more rounds - disappear.

It works like a charm.

Hope this helps.

This problem is almost universal, especially when one crosses adolescence and reaches adulthood, when the mind begins to wander away from studies and towards more mundane matters. Not surprising to find yourself thinking thoughts about who said what to whom and especially who said what to you. At such time, one suggestion is to relax, drink a glass of water, change your seating position and posture, and apply yourself anew with more determination. Keeping a vision firm in the mind about you having passed the course and you celebrating with friends after the result is declared - will be a definite help.

starnexus wrote:Whenever I do something that is 'brain intensive' for example math I start to get angry. For example today I was working on my math (I decided to get a second bachelors degree) and negative thoughts started playing in my mind about the past. What's worse is I have no reason to be angry.

I'm pretty well liked where I am and don't have any major problems to deal with right now so my brain just searches for any reason it can find to be angry and so it'll bring up things that happened months and sometimes years ago that aren't even relevant anymore.

I can't do my work when I'm in this state because I start making little petty mistakes and that aggravates me even further.

It only happens when I'm bored or concentrating on something or bored.

Please help

I think we often have the answers within ourselves, but just as often need someone outside us to point it out or remind us.

I see "bored" twice like sandwich bread around the meat of "concentrating" in your last sentence.

There might be something to that. Maybe you're angry that what you deem as worthy (that which takes deep concentration) is turning out to bore you! That would upset me and probably anger me at the same time. Who wants to see holes in their dreams?

Only you know if this is even close to true. Trust your own response. I think you will find the answer if you'll stop and take as objective a look as you can.

If my guess is right, and you are bored by the things that take a great deal of concentration, you may want to focus on what brings you contentment, fulfillment. Not just happiness. Sometimes fulfillment is far more important than the fleeting thing we call "happiness". My son found that out when he left an extremely lucrative banking position to work in the Auto Body Repair business which includes using his hands, having something to point to as "his doing" when he's done, and the joy of painting as he is an artist and loves cars. He makes perhaps half what he used to, but he is deeply happy and fulfilled, and I couldn't be prouder of him.

Hang in there. I hope this was helpful and wish you the best.