| Dealing With Your Own Anger | | | | Blame is another issue that comes up |
| | | | frequently with anger. Blame is very |
| Anger is not a very enjoyable emotion and it | | | | dis-empowering, and it is sometimes sneaks |
| can cause many problems. We often feel | | | | its way into our psyche in disguise. Make a |
| helpless in our anger, but there are some | | | | conscious decision to let go of blame just as |
| simple techniques we can learn to help us | | | | you would let go of holding onto something |
| reduce or eliminate our anger and direct it | | | | that burns you. |
| in more healthy ways. | | | | |
| | | | Expression is the last key to managing your |
| Anger often is born out of a build up of | | | | anger. Trying to suppress anger you feel only |
| stress, so the first thing you can do is | | | | makes it fester until it boils over or causes |
| learn relaxation techniques that you can use | | | | damage to you. Anger often can be unraveled |
| when you are feeling stressed. One technique | | | | by using the techniques just mentioned, but |
| is simply taking a break and breathing deeply | | | | when it can't, it is important to express it |
| and letting go of the tension held in your | | | | in ways that do not harm you or others. |
| body. | | | | Sometimes it is enough to communicate to |
| | | | someone, "I am angry because I feel like..." |
| It is our exaggerated and dramatic way of | | | | At other times it is not helpful or possible |
| thinking that makes our anger escalate, so it | | | | to talk to the person with whom you are |
| is important to start breaking the habit of | | | | feeling anger. General anger can also be |
| this distorted way of thinking. When we are | | | | expressed in painting (even if you are not an |
| angry, we might be imagining that people are | | | | artist), in poetry or music, in a journal, or |
| deliberately trying to hurt us or that we are | | | | some other safe manner. Just be careful that |
| powerless or that things beyond our control | | | | when you are expressing your anger, you are |
| matters more than it actually does. | | | | letting go of it and not increasing your |
| | | | anger. Managing anger should always make you |
| Control issues especially come up with anger. | | | | feel more empowered. |
| We need to learn that we can't control others | | | | |
| but also that we don't need to control others | | | | Social network users, for adding layouts to |
| to be happy and safe. We only need to be able | | | | your page click Myspace Layouts . You can |
| to direct our own thoughts and behavior, and | | | | also use Myspace Comments to comment your |
| more consciously choose to take positive | | | | friends on any social network. For Graphics |
| things from situations and life. | | | | click Myspace Graphics. |
| | | | |