Most of us know by now that stress and anger have a negative impact on our overall health and wellbeing. Not only do these emotions affect our emotional health and sense of peace, but they also affect our bodies on a very physical level. When we get angry a host of physiological responses take place in our bodies and these changes have longer lasting effects. Getting angry first leads to a raise in the heart rate. We've all felt it. Our heart starts pounding as we start to get ever more enraged. This faster heart rate then leads to arterial tension and an increase in testosterone production. Cortisol, also known as the stress hormone, actually decreases temporarily at this time, while the brain's left hemisphere becomes increasingly engaged. According to researchers at the University of Valencia, however, these physiological changes produce radical changes in the body's autonomous nervous system. The nervous system controls the cardiovascular and the e