Release Stuck Anger to Cure Depression - by Sherry Ning

You need appetites. Appetites are the hallmark of health and chutzpah. Appetites are symptoms that the dog in you is still alive. In traditional Chinese medicine as well as vernacular Asian culture, hunger — the most literal appetite — means your health is fine, or even if you’re sick, it means it’s not severe. Appetite, more abstractly, means desire. It’s a wanting for something. An appetite can be for sex, money, power, shopping;1 you get the point. One vital appetite we have is the hunger for competition and conquest. Just like how a loss of appetite for food indicates a decline in physical health, a loss in that carnal, animalistic, and lizard-brain-rage appetite for blood indicates some kind of a psychological misbalance. Subscribed I am the happiest, fittest, and the most mentally powerful after a good duel. Fencing and other martial arts are excellent forms of controlled violence. Running, working out, lifting, yoga — no other form of exercise makes up for this. I’ve also tried

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