Anger management Controlling Anger — Before It Controls You
May 28, 2009
Anger management
Controlling Anger — Before It Controls You
We all know what anger is, and we’ve all felt it: whether as a passing annoyance or as full-blown rage. Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems.
What do you do when you are angry? Do you explode or control it? How do you express your anger?
In expressing your anger do you ever think it has been misplaced?
An excellent way to express your anger
We can’t physically lash out at every person or object that irritates Anger can be suppressed, and then converted or redirected. This happens when you hold in your anger, stop thinking about it, and focus on something positive. However anger turned inward may cause hypertension, high blood pressure, or depression.
The goal of anger management is to reduce both your emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes. You can’t get rid of anger, but you can learn to control your reactions.
Strategies To Keep Anger At Bay
Simple relaxation tools, such as deep breathing slowly repeat a calm word or phrase such as “relax,” “take it easy.” and relaxing imagery, can help calm down angry feelings.
Change the way you think. Replace these thoughts with more rational ones. For instance, instead of telling yourself, “oh it’s awful, everything’s ruined,” tell yourself, it’s understandable that I’m upset about it, but it’s not the end of the world and getting angry is not going to fix it anyhow.
Sometimes it’s our immediate surroundings that give us cause for irritation and fury
“Silly humor” can help defuse rage in a number of ways. If your colleague’s made you angry, picture a large bag full of dirt sitting at his desk, talking on the phone, going to meetings,etc.
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Very interesting discussion about anger and a possible connection with high blood pressure.
My girlfriend is a very stressed out person and quick to anger. But her blood pressure is always really low.
On the other hand I’m very laid back and rarely if ever anger - and I’m the one you suffers from hypertension!
Perhaps my anger is inward and unconscious? How does one know? And what can one do about it.
I do do an “emotional release” exercise. Perhaps it helps. Hard to say because I also do breathing exercises, diet change, and exercise. My blood pressure is coming down week by week.
Best regards,
Simon
http://bloodpressurebegone.com
i do get angry easily.can u help me.
A colleague always gets me angry at work. I cant stand his autocratic way of being a leader so we are always in an quarel. How do i avoid him n control my anger?
I do get angry but often and the problem is anytime i get i don’t talk and just keep everything to myself. is it good?
I do get angry but not often and the problem is anytime i get i don’t talk and just keep everything to myself. is it good?
What i observed, in this country abt our leaders is that, they never want to give we youth the chance. They shut our dreams.
They will frastrate u when u r climbing the ladder. Kojo pls use ur media to talk to our politicians. They r selfish.