<em><strong>Healthy release of pent-up anger</strong></em>.  As Candace Pert Ph.D. explains "I believe that all emotions are healthy, because emotions are what unite the mind and the body.  Negative emotions are just as healthy as positive."  When we deny or do not express our negative emotions and they do not run its course, causing stress in the system to build that could create harmful blockages.  I find what helps me the most is non-judgmental journaling - the kind that you can rip up after you write out all of those dark feelings and emotions.  Talking with others most certainly helps, and sometimes when I am in the right mood - I shut the door, blast some music and hit a few pillows.  This can be very cathartic!

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Sometimes the biggest impetus to healing can come from jump-starting the immune system with a burst of long-suppressed anger.  How and where is up to you."  Frued described depression as anger redirected against oneself.