All Entries in the "Anger Management" Category
What Is Anger?
Some of the common beliefs and misconceptions about anger are: Have you sometimes felt that the feeling of anger is unavoidable and that you’d better find a way to let off steam before the anger turns into aggression? Have you ever had a therapist tell you to stop holding in your anger? Have you ever [...]
How To Control Your Actions?
Let us find out how our actions refer to anything we do with your hands, feet, and mouth; how we respond to the thoughts, memories, physical sensations, and feelings dished out by our body and mind. Let’s say you feel hurt. Then you act on it; perhaps you lash out with blame and accusations, or [...]
What Types Of Angers Trigger Your Anger?
Sure, everybody gets angry once in a while, but most people know how to deal with their anger. Their anger tells them something is wrong. Then they figure out what is bothering them. They do something to change the bad situation. They check to find out how well their action worked. If what they did [...]
Problems That Arise When You Try To Control Anger In Other People
All you need to do here is imagine that you are a puppeteer. Exercise: The Human Puppeteer Take a minute to think of the characters involved in a recent anger episode where you were trying to get others to do as you wanted. Then, go to your imaginary puppet box and pull out the marionettes, [...]
Using Acceptance To Get Out Of The Anger Trap
Many people feel trapped by their anger, unable to retreat or withdraw once their anger feelings are triggered. It’s like being launched on autopilot into a tight space where there doesn’t seem to be any room for other choices or other ways of responding. Although recognition is an important start, it is not sufficient enough [...]
How Anger Is Created?
The prefrontal cortex, that part of our brain that uses language to evaluate experience, can literally manufacture anger by using the sense of judgment, attribution, and assumed intent. Here’s how these functions work to generate angry feelings and behavior. Judgment: Judgment is the natural spillover of the mind’s tendency to categorize experience in black-or-white terms. [...]
Taking Control Of Your Life
It is important to understand that you are not your anger. Anger is something you experience periodically. Anger explodes into your awareness and, after a while, it lets up. You are not the anger. You the person who experiences and observes your life are separate from your feelings of anger. Do not take your anger [...]
Struggling With Anger Is No Longer An Option
Face it; you want to change your anger. Perhaps your wish to change follows some incident where you lost control. Or maybe you’ve struggled for a long time, looking desperately for a way to stop the damage anger does to your relationships and your life. What are the Costs of Anger? The battle with anger [...]