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You can act out your rage in fantasy. This will diff use a lot of the anger for good. For example, pretend you’re in a room with your ex-husband. Rant and rave at her until you fully speak your mind, however ugly it gets. Or, write her a letter that you do not mail. 2. Don’t talk about your anger on a daily basis. Psychologists say that discussing a horrible event frequently will give it too much power. Learn to turn the bad thoughts off . 3. Forgive the perpetrator. This doesn’t mean what this person did was ok. It means you’re freeing them to move out of your life. They will occupy no emotional space in your brain. Remember: you can always call a lawyer if they try to hurt you again. “If you dwell on those who hurt you too much, they might as well live in your house,” says a psychologist we’ll call Raymond. Raymond was once physically injured in a protest movement many years ago. He reports that some who opposed him back then have since apologised. “Remember that rage is caused by ignorant people or circumstances aff ected by TURNING IT OFF: Don’t talk about your anger on a daily basis. Psychologists say that discussing a horrible event frequently will give it too much power. Learn ignorance,” says Raymond. to turn the bad thoughts off . “Knowledge is the only power that can open the light. For example, re you upset over a that man who stole your friend friend who betrayed will fi nd out soon enough that he is you? Furious about not living in paradise. That person someone who lied who lied about you will eventually Aabout you to co- be found out. The truth is always workers? Angry about money you revealed at some point.” got cheated out of in a business The antidote for rage is to deal? believe that you can channel good Most of us know the feeling of toward mankind. Don’t let anyone rage. It’s the result of having our contaminate you with their poison dignity dismantled. It’s the anger for too long. Vow to become the and hurt pressing on us that we best individual you can become. know we didn’t deserve. There is no revenge stronger or more There are all kinds of ways to beautiful than that. deal with rage. We push it down. “I work as a prison counsellor,” We cope. We relax a little. But, the says a psychologist we’ll call Bradley. problem is, it’s hard to keep it from “Reaching into the rage, pain and coming back. bad luck of these individuals is “Watching the news can trigger something I love to do. I’m on a my lifelong rage,” says a mother rescue mission every day. we’ll call Donna. “I grew up in a “I despise that pain, abuse, mixed racial family, and I get so neglect and poverty stole who mad thinking, ‘Why can’t we all get ANTIDOTE: The antidote for rage is to believe that you can channel good towards mankind. they are. But, the worse their along?! Why can’t we respect each backgrounds, the more I love sitting other?!’” in India, moved to the US to open siblings and me,” Donna explains. The good news about rage is this: down with these individuals. The Donna was adopted by a couple businesses and build a large family “But, they hated us more because We each have the power to manage human heart is the only weapon, from India when she was fi ve. The through adoption. we had more money than most our rage. We can decide exactly how tool, or instrument that can couple, who were very wealthy “People voiced racial slurs to my people.” we’ll control our anger. overcome these obstacles.” – TNS 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 4, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Light at the end of the tunnel With concern mounting that coronavirus may be easily transmitted through aerosols,some researchers and physicians hope UV technology can be recruited yet again tohelp disinfect high-risk indoor settings. By Will Stone igh up near the ceiling, the technology can be recruited yet Aerosols are microdroplets in the dining room again to help disinfect high-risk expelled when someone exhales, Although it’s not of his Seattle-area indoor settings. speaks or coughs. Unlike the larger perfect, it probably restaurant, Musa Firat “I thought it was a great idea, and heavier respiratory droplets Hrecently installed a and I want my customers to be that fall quickly to the ground, offers the best “killing zone” — a place where safe,” said Firat whose casual eatery, aerosols can linger in the air a long swaths of invisible electromagnetic Marlaina’s Mediterranean Kitchen, time and travel through indoor solution for direct energy penetrate the air, ready to is 20 minutes south of downtown spaces. When someone catches a disarm the coronavirus and other Seattle. virus this way, the process is called air disinfection. (But) dangerous pathogens that drift As the US grapples with how to “airborne transmission.” upward in tiny, airborne particles. interrupt the spread of the highly It’s already recognised that the we have very little Firat’s new system draws on a infectious virus, UV is being used coronavirus can spread by means of practical experience century-old technology for fending to decontaminate surfaces on aerosols during medical procedures, off infectious diseases: Energetic public transit and in hospitals which is why health care workers to show how effective waves of ultraviolet light — known where infectious droplets may have are advised to wear respirators, as germicidal UV, or GUV — are landed, as well as to disinfect N95 such as N95 masks, that fi lter out it can be (in a delivered in the right dose to wipe masks for reuse.