Manage Your Anger with Anger Management Techniques

Dr. Purushothaman
September 23, 2013

Anger can often seem like it is far more complex than the world in which we live. Everybody can benefit from learning some anger management techniques and should feel free to do so without feeling like they are being judged. Learning them is smart because there isn't a person alive who hasn't gotten angry at some time or another. It is not that you should work toward eliminating anger from your life, because you cannot, but rather it is how you handle the situations that can cause anger. You learn to directly intervene before anger gets the better of you by using different strategies and techniques to deal with it. We will keep talking about the different kinds of anger management techniques that you can use to help yourself.

Another powerful anger management technique that will have a positive impact on your entire being is called, controlled deep breathing exercise. Its name should tell you what you need to know about this exercise. When your body and mind get excited you lose depth in your breathing and it speeds up. What you do is have the awareness that you are in a situation that is stressing you. This will allow you to consciously take back control of your breathing. You use your belly (well, really, your diaphragm) to do this particular sort of breathing. Practice by expanding your belly to breathe in and then relaxing it to breathe out. You do need, however, to make sure that your belly doesn't get too much stress when you inhale.

Effective anger management techniques center on those first few seconds when something has a negative effect on you. The only person who can actively do anything real to manage an outburst of anger is you. You can begin managing things well by learning to read your own mind and body. It is important that you learn how to sense the soon-to-happen changes in your brain and your body. Your body reacts immediately even when you just think about something that makes you feel stressed out or angry. Your muscles will start to get tense, and other physiological changes like an increased heart rate will also happen.

There are lots of anger management techniques that you can use. For example, you can make the conscious choice to express your anger and frustration in constructive ways. Work hard to make conscious and careful choices about what you want to say and who the appropriate person to say it to might be. Another extremely relevant point about anger expression has to do with your perception. You probably take things way too personally.

Over the last few years, lots of anger management techniques have been created and perfected. Unfortunately something such as "anger" is not necessarily a profitable industry that motivates substantial funding.

So the amount of research activity suffers as a consequence. Thankfully, there is still quite a lot a person can learn about successfully managing anger problems. The best place to begin, if you suspect you have an anger problem, is with yourself. You have to be able to look at yourself and your behavior in an objective way.

 

 

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