Aug 8, 2007

Anger Management

With more stressed life style, anger becomes part and parcel of our life. One should learn how to manage this uninvited guest better to have a good personal and professional relationship with others.

Have you ever thought about how you get angry?

Angry is a process which is not just a feeling but also a complex experience. Anger is a progression of the following steps.

1) Event - Triggers anger.
2) Emotion - Your physical and mental expression to the anger.
3) Behaviour - Your reaction to your emotions.
4) Reaction - The reaction for your behaviour which will initiate another anger process.

You can be victim of anger, may be your own or other's. Let us see how to handle both.

Reducing Anger
Manage Your Stress :-
Stress is the root cause for all disease including anger. If you can manager your stress, you will healthier for life. There are four ways to reduce our stress.

1) Exercise 5 days a week at least 30 mins per day.
2) Proper rest. Minimum of 6 hours sleep at night.
3) Positive Thinking.
4) Healthy Diet.

Control Your Anger :-
I know it is a difficult task but by achieving this by meditation and by using anger for positive results one can live a peaceful life.

Changing Angry behaviour to Assertive Behaviour :-
To do this, you should learnt to identify when you are angry. Once you reach that level, you should learn to convert your anger to assertive. Example, when you are angry, take a break, go for a walk, listen to your favourite song, read books. This break will help you to analyse why you were angry, what could make you happy etc which in tern provide you solutions.

Handling Angry People
Help Angry People
In general, angry people make you angry but this is not a productive approach. You can help them by identifing the reason for their anger, to bring them out of anger and to provide solutions to their anger.

Responding to Angry People
1) Get away if you suspect anger.
2) Understand why you might become angry at an angry man.
3) Assert yourself when verbally attacked.
4) Listen & Clarify the cause of anger.

Argueing without Anger

1) Have the discussion in a appropriate place.
2) Act like professional.
3) Let the other person talk.
4) Remain positive.
5) Keep the persent issue.

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