Friday, August 28, 2009

How to manage ANGER?


I am decided to drop some words about anger management, I hope that you can visualize and healthy living without faster aging. Anger is a normal and usually a healthy human emotion. However, it could also turn out to be destructive when it gets out of control. It could also lead to problems at work, in your personal relationships and in the overall quality of life. Uncontrolled anger makes you feel as though you’re at the mercy of the unpredictable and powerful emotion.

What is Anger?
The Nature of Anger
Anger is an emotional state that varies in the intensity from mild irritation to intense fury and rage. Similar to other emotions, it is accompanied by physiological and biological changes. Your heart rate and blood pressure increases when you get angry.

Both external and internal events could cause anger. You could be angry at a specific person or your anger could be caused by worrying about your personal problems. Memories of traumatic events can also trigger angry feelings.

The Expression Anger
The natural way to express anger is to respond aggressively. Anger is a natural and an adaptive response to threats; it inspires powerful, very often aggressive feelings and behaviours, which allow us to fight and to defend ourselves when we are attacked. Henceforth, a certain amount of anger is therefore necessary to our survival.

On the contrary, we can’t physically lash out at every person or object that irritates or annoys us. There are laws, social norms, and the common sense that place limits on how our anger can take us.

People use a variety of both conscious and unconscious processes to deal with their angry feelings. There three main approaches are:

Expressing
Expressing your angry feelings in an assertive manner is the healthiest way. To achieve this, you have to learn how to make clear what your needs are, and how to get them met, without hurting others. Being assertive literally means being respectful of yourself and other.

Suppressing
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. The aim is to suppress your anger and convert it into more constructive behaviour.

Calming
Finally, you can clam down inside. This means not just controlling your outward behaviour, but also controlling your internal responses, taking steps to lower your heart rate, calm yourself down, and let the feeling subside.
When none of these three techniques work, that’s when someone or something is going to get hurt.

Anger Management
The objective of anger management is to reduce both your emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes. You can’t avoid the things or people that enrage you, nor can you change them within a short period, but you can learn to effectively control your reactions.

No comments: