How to Manage Your Anger - Anger Isn't a Bad Thing

Anger isn't a bad thing if it's expressed in a healthy way. But if we don't know the best way to manage it, we can allow it to control us instead of us keeping it in control. Here are 5 tips on How to Manage Your Anger.

Show Notes:

Sometimes it feels like anger can just sneak up on us. We don’t even see it coming and then BAM! We are feeling angry. And whether that’s because something triggered us or a situation escalated further than we expected or it’s the reaction we had on deck when something happened out of nowhere. We find ourselves in anger & might not know what to do, so we react and it usually doesn’t turn out well.

In our last episode, we spoke about how you can determine where your anger comes from. If you haven’t listened to that episode, I highly suggest you do so because it’s extremely helpful to know where your anger is stemming from, why it shows up the way it does & to know how you can be aware of when it’s starting to creep up.

Today, I am going to share with you some tips on how we can manage our anger. If you find that you have more regrettable moments than not when you get angry, this will help you. If you don’t like the feeling of your anger rising as high as it will go, these tips can be helpful in bringing it down before it gets that high. It will also allow you to experience your anger at it’s highest height, but it won’t be as detrimental as it’s been in the past or would be when it’s in control, not you.

Before we get into it, I want to make sure I express to you how important it is to know that anger isn’t a bad thing. It’s a really great thing, actually. Anger can teach us what really bothers us and where our own personal boundaries lie and how much our emotions at the highest intensity can affect our thoughts & behaviors and what we might need to work on in regard to communication skills. There are other things that our anger can teach us, but those are the ones I wanted to highlight. 

Anger is more helpful than you think. There is a negative connotation on anger because it’s usually coupled with pain or violence because it’s not expressed in a healthy way, but it’s more than that. Anger can be a signal that something is wrong with your current experience or situation and you should figure out what can be done to change it. Anger can also be motivating for you to follow through with what you’ve been putting off or to finally make a change you’ve been avoiding. Remember, ANYTHING can be seen as bad if you only see one side of it.

Here are 5 tips on How to Manage Your Anger:

1. Define Your Reason for Being Angry 
2. Ask Yourself If Reacting the Way You Want to Will Get You What You Want 
3. Take a Break & Find a Quick Release for Your Anger Energy 
4. Be Empathetic to the Person/Situation 
5. Communicate Assertively, Not Aggressively

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