5 Best Anger Management Tips

According to Mayo Clinic " The process of recognizing the situation that you are becoming angry and taking action to deal with the situation in a positive way is called anger management". Don't consider this process as a hindrance in expressing your feelings or thoughts. Anger is one of the healthy emotions and the way to express it is termed as anger management".

Please don't confuse the process with the suppression of your feelings or discouraging you to express your emotions. Anger management is all about channelizing your feelings of anger in a constructive way. However, suppressing such feelings that must have been expressed may be harmful physically and mentally. Therefore, to address the issue I will list some anger management tips which will be quite helpful in channelizing the feelings of anger.

1. Try to find an outlet
   Make a conscious effort to address the issue rather than focusing on the moments or things that made you angry. Is your child's irritating behavior is the button of your anger? Is your friend or family member is the reason of your anger, just take a moment and have a dialogue with them for some constructive development. Sometimes, lack of conversation is the button of anger in some indirect way.

2. Follow Forgive and Forget Rule
   Forgiveness is the most powerful tool to the irritation. Following anger and other negative thoughts, all the day has a very negative impact on your daily life and doing so leads to nothing more than disturbed life, scattered thoughts and anger. If you can forgive the person who was the reason for your anger then you will both learn a lesson. On the other side depending upon the situations of mistrust and if the other person continues to hurt you then forgiving rather than forgetting would be the best way to go.

3. Improved listening skills
   This method may look like irrelevant, in fact, it works. Being an active listener we instantly strengthen the communication between us and the second person. In such a way a trust builds up which ultimately eradicates the situations of scattered thoughts and anger. By doing so you make sure the other person that you care and thoughts of another person really matter to you.

4. Relaxation practice
   According to APA "practicing relaxation techniques such as deep breathing and relaxing imagery situations can help to calm down the angry thoughts". The APA further explained that deep breathing doesn't mean just to breathe from the chest but repeating words like "just leave", "I am in command", "just relax" and to practice deep breathing saying these words may help.

5. Move away for some moments
   If someone is continuously arguing with you then move away from such a situation to avoid yourself from hypertension. This scenario is similar to departing two fire catching elements so that they don't burn each other anymore. One more aspect could be to remove the elements that are the source of anger or such feelings.

Which techniques do you adopt for anger management? Do share with others.