Anger is mind's response to its unfulfilled autocratic expectations.

One feels being helplessly swayed by the violent gushes of anger without any control on oneself.

Anger is never welcome. But anger does try to justify itself when it comes, always blaming the other person or situation to be wrong.

Sometimes anger is directed against self, blaming a part of the self for its wrongdoing.

Anger incapacitates its victim. With anger, breathing gets irregular and shallow. Blood pressure rises. Immunity drops. Anger makes a deleterious fatigue envelop the body. Peace gets disturbed.

Out of all the above mentioned biological manifestations of anger, it is only breathing that seems to be under a person's conscious control. If one does not let breathing get irregular and shallow in the way as is typically symptomatic of anger; the anger loses its major biological support that it finds in its anger-specific breathing pattern. Once it loses that, it also loses its ground to stand on. The anger vanishes.

That is why awareness toward breathing has been acknowledged as the basic meditation, which brings immediate peace to its practitioner.