Tips for handling anger
As a follow on from yesterdayâs blog, âEvaluating anger,â I thought I would look at ways to help us deal with anger. These are more important than the anger itself because without learning how to handle anger, we will always have anger.
Although itâs normal to feel angry from time to time, anger isnât something we should move into our lives permanently.
These tips should help:
Itâs important to recognise why weâre angry. Always try to look for and work through the initial source of anger;
Talk your anger through with the person youâre angry at. That way you stop yourself from taking your anger out on other people who primarily end up being in the firing line;
If itâs your child thatâs angry, try to get them to talk about why theyâre feeling angry. If they canât then time out always helps;
Always come back in and apologise when youâve come through the angry stage. That way you show children itâs okay for them to apologise too;
Write any anger thoughts down. Reading through our thoughts can sometimes help us understand the anger we feel and helps put space between us and the anger;
Itâs far easier to get angry than it is to work through the initial source of anger, because anger is usually a culmination of a past experience in the present moment and something weâre dealing with presently.
Perhaps we need to evaluate exactly how we feel and incorporate more mediation into our relationships. I believe itâs important to talk about the things that could so easily turn into anger; and which usually come from nowhere.
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