Anger Management and Martial Arts

Too Angry to Enjoy Life? Martial Arts are for You!  

By Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts

When gun violence filled the news columns again and again in the past few years, the one positive attempt taken by academics was to study the issue of anger. The studies that have come up on anger and anger management are not always positive or encouraging. But if you find that you get angry in a day at unreasonable circumstances, if you feel that your anger has started creeping into your personal and work life, do not scroll on without reading!

Anger Management: Where We Have Gone Wrong

Harvard Medical School shocked American mothers and fathers in 2012 when they revealed that a minimum of 6 million adolescents of the US are victims of what they called the impulsive explosive disorder. Three years later, the National Comorbidity Survey reported that among adults, this is as high as 22 million, out of which 3.7 million are gun owners as well.

This necessarily indicates that somewhere down the lane, we missed out something. One factor can be the heavily competitive scenario which demands you to come up with nothing less than the best to stay floated. We are brought to our boiling points, left without no real outlet, desensitized by the movies. All we can do is explode.

Why Do We Need to Cool Down?

Gun violence is the occasional but the most unfortunate turn which anger takes. Before it reaches there or worsens, it affects our daily lives in numerous ways. Uncontrollable bouts of anger are scientifically proven to lead to psychological complications such as depression, paranoia, violence and suicidal tendency. Socially, it weakens friendships and causes strain in relationships. Children brought up by too-angry parents suffer psychological symptoms similar to kids from dysfunctional families. We really need to cool down.

The Best Possible Solution: Anger Management and Martial Arts

Of all the benefits of martial arts, anger management is perhaps the most personally useful advantage for many of us. Many martial arts have origins in the doctrines of saints and sages who gave importance to emotion-control and denial. This has imbued their traditions with great possibilities for controlling anger.

Martial arts increase the release of endorphin, which is a major factor in stress control and euphoric experience. Practicing martial arts is a good way to release the excess energy and accumulated stress, which are major factors in uncontrollable anger. In a larger way, martial arts can show you the value of companionship, respect and social commitment. In Bruce McCorry's Academy, for instance, many former learners have reported improved relationship with their family, children and partners after taking up martial arts.

The best part of martial arts anger management is how it accommodates all ages. Right from childhood, the ability to manage anger can come useful. It would help children to experience a peaceful childhood and develop lifelong friendships. Teenage is the time when anger management comes most handy. Martial arts are the ultimate answer to all those pet-names we have devised for adult anger bouts: office rage, road rage, work rage. Bruce McCorry's Academy is a modular institution that helps learners to control anger and stress through martial arts. Seize this chance and build a better life for yourselves!

Martial Art is Here to Stay

Fitness Fads Come and Go, Martial Arts is Here to Stay 

By: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts, Peabody, MA

For our forefathers, life must have been quite easier, since they didn't have to worry too much about working out in the morning. For them, daily life provided enough physical activity that they didn't feel the need to work out. The moment we left behind those old ways of living, health and fitness found a place in our lists of worries, and fitness fads made their entry. How did this happen?

Fitness Fads: A Glance at History

It is said that the European enlightenment modernity of the 18th century is the moment when man became conscious of health as a state of being which needs to be taken care of. From early 19th century, we could see names in history that associated itself with fitness. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the founding father of gymnastics, lived in the 19th century.

Since then onwards, the human health history has witnessed many fitness fads come and go. In America, the fitness trends, as we see them today start in the post-war economic boom of the 50s. The focus that war placed on fitness, the move to healthier suburbs and the rise in leisure must be the reasons. President Eisenhower's Youth Fitness Club is a memory of this moment. By the 60s, the feminine mystique was working at its best, and women too took to work out, hoping to be the ideal beauties that society wanted them to be.

The late 60s saw the emergence of health-oriented fitness methods. Devices like sauna pants and jiggle machine appear at this point. Jogging emerged as a popular interest in the 70s. Popular figures including President Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone actively promoted fitness, and 80s witnessed the fitness boom as we know it today. 

Fitness Fads Come and Go, Martial Art is Here to Stay

Since then, America has left no stone unturned in the fitness race. Everything including machines, alternative medicines, crazy diets and self-help groups have been tried and discarded. Sometime they revive in new forms, sometime they get obliterated forever. 

In this mad rush of fitness fads, the only constant presence have been martial arts. Asian home countries had thought about martial arts, though not necessarily as fitness, centuries before. Most of them made their way to the US during 19th and 20th centuries, but right from their commencement, martial arts had never gone out of fashion as a fitness mantra. 

There must be something about martial arts that makes it the only constant fitness technique over centuries. That the benefits of martial arts are not limited to fitness alone must be a reason. Also the fact that martial arts can be easily customized and taught to learners of any age group has increased its popularity. Once you take up martial art, it is a lifetime companion, monitoring your health, fitness, mental poise, immunity and confidence for you.

In the case of the US, the presence of some great martial art schools, with a legacy of decades, has definitely led to the popularity of martial arts. Bruce McCorry's Academy, which has dedicated 40 years of professional service to the promotion and popularization of martial arts in Massachusetts, belongs to those names. If you ever get a chance, never lose the opportunity to experience the fitness wealth of centuries-old martial art traditions! Experience what's here to stay, Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy!