Don't get mad get even!

A Report in today's press (see  http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article4022272.ece) suggests that getting angry makes heart attacks and strokes more likely.  Think of all the descriptions there are of anger and you get the picture of a person on red alert.  Red mist! so angry he looked as if he would  burst!  or in Shakespeare, the call to arms in Henry V. In Henry's speech, the summoning of rage is contrived for a reason but of course the anger spoken about in the report is the habit of anger which eats up our consciousness.  So, why would meditation help you might wonder?  It is calming and you get to see what is happening, you can discover that you are not the anger until you join it and then you are able to view the anger in you and replace it with quiet.  A mantra helps, it has it's own power to clean up your problems.
So, go for evenness not anger.

In Peace, there's nothing so becomes a man

As modest stillness and humility,

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger:

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,

Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage,

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect,

Let pry through the portage of the head

Like the brass cannon, let the brow o'erwhelm it

As fearfully as doth a gallèd rock

O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,

Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,

Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit

To his full height.