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How To Deal With Anger

February 11, 2021Ayobiojo Mayowa

Anger is not a bad thing. It’s a common situation we tend to experience in our life from time to time. Most commonly, we get angry when someone hurts us or when some distressing event happened? Somehow it’s just an irrational emotion that we face suddenly and get normal after some time.

But if you don’t cope with anger over time, it can have several negative impacts. If anger is not controlled over time, it becomes worse and turns into aggression. That unfortunate aggression creates by rage can lead to anxiety that harms your health or even affects your loving relationship with other people.

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So, if you often lose your mind when becoming angry, it’s better to learn how to deal with it. Coping with anger positively helps you to get to rid of facing its adverse outcomes. It also allows you to become stronger in order to handle the current situation effectively.

5 Effective Ways To Deal With Anger:

To avoid being in the situation of anger, here are the five effective ways.  All of these are best to manage emotions quickly instead of making them worse for yourself.

Take Some Deep Breaths:

Whenever you feel overwhelmed and found yourself in an unstable condition, start taking deep breaths. It is highly effective in order to control the emotions instead of being getting involved in the situation of anger. Deep breaths can calm your mood, stabilizes your nerves, and refreshes your mind. It is an essential practice that helps you to control your emotions whenever anger threatens to overwhelm you.

Recognize Your Response to Anger:

Sometimes you often get burst out of your mind when going through the situation of anger. The best way to cope with it is to recognize the outcomes of your anger. Calm down your nerves, sit down on the chair, and thinks about the response to the rage. Will it be going to destroy your loving relationships, or will it become the reason to fire you from the job. By focusing on the outcomes, you will optimize and prepare yourself for controlling the anger whenever you face it again. Recognizing the response to the offense is the best practice to cope with an overwhelming situation quickly.

Change Your Thinking:

One of the considerable ways to deal with anger is to change your state of mind about events, people, or situations. When you think about others negatively or irrationally, it is easy to get caught up in a dramatic and overwhelming situation.  Cognitive reframing is a technique that helps people to change their thinking about certain events that happens to them. Positively changing your thoughts helps you to avoid negative emotions such as anger.

Use Relaxation Strategies:

Relaxation is the most effective technique to deal with anger. In addition to deep breathing, many relaxation strategies help you control your emotion when you find yourself getting angry. Some of them are mentioned below:

  • Meditation
  • Practice Mindfulness
  • Take a sound sleep
  • Visualization
  • Listening to relax music
  • Progressive muscle relaxation
  • Take a cool bath
  • Do some yoga

Understand Why You’re Feeling Angry

In addition to finding the different ways to cope with anger, it’s also necessary to think out of the box and understand why you’re feeling angry. What is the main reason that endorses you to face this situation of offense repeatedly? Thinks profoundly and find out the problem and solve it accordingly.  By resolving the main issue that causes, you can set assure yourself that you’ll never face it anymore.

Some of the things that trigger anger are mentioned below:

  • Memories of negative events
  • Conflicts in relationships
  • Problems at work
  • Family issues
  • Situations such as traffic, accidents, canceled plans, or being late.
  • Financial problems

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