Controlling Your Anger

By Broyde McDonald

Anger is just one in a number of emotions that combine to make up the real character and power of a person. The way you manage and control your anger helps to define some of the ways that the world responds to you.

Uncontrolled anger is dangerous and terrifying and usually leads to more anger. The other anger is controlled anger, and it is used to help solve problems. In truth, if it were not for anger there would be many times that we do not even know that something is wrong and needs fixing.

One way you can see if your anger is under control is by looking at the way you feel and act when you are getting angry. If you can be careful about what you say when angry, and are not tense or anxious inside you can suppose that your anger is controlled.

However, if when mad you only know what you had said when you had finished saying it then you should know that you need to learn to control your anger before you get into even more trouble.

There are many ways that you can control you anger. Are you going to control your anger? Good there are a lot of tools to help you do this? All you need to do is sort through and find the methods that work best for you.

To control your anger, two of the first things you must do are know when you are getting angry. Secondly you need to use your will power as soon as you start to get angry to do something that calms your anger down, instead of letting it grow up into a rage.

Excuse mehold on a minuteone secondbe right backyou can use one of these, or a similar phrase to rescue yourself from a potentially hostile situation. You only need to say it, walk away, and stay away until your anger has cooled off.

You use walking away as you would training wheels on a bicycle. You will not have to walk away forever. It would only be until you are managing your anger better. Once things are better, you will be able to jump over the walking away part and substitute another skill for it.

Until that time, you will stop anger from damaging your affairs by walking away and slowly counting, first to ten, then twenty, one hundred or whatever number you need to until you are relaxed again.

Until you are controlling your anger better, make sure that you are not underestimating the power of this act to help. It is simple, but it has helped others and it will help you too.

When you start to think about long term solutions, let your starting place be taking the time everyday to relax yourself. Coming out of your anger problems will be more rapid if you take the time to treat yourself to time alone thinking about the things that satisfy you. Whether you believe it or not, this will take a lot of the bite out of your anger.

Get some help with controlling your anger.

If you make up your mind to control your anger more speedily, I recommend that you do an anger management class. With eight weeks of training you will be managing your anger 20% better. - 31521

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