When do you experience anger? You become angry when you are frustrated, unhappy, or when your feelings are hurt. You also experience it when plans don’t turn out as desired or when coming against opposition or criticism.
Anger never helps anyone. It wastes your energy, hurts your health, spoils your relationships, and causes you to miss opportunities.
Getting angry is acting against your best interests.
Plans do not always proceed according to expectations, and people do not always act as you wish. This can cause anger.
You don’t always have control of situations and conditions, but you can certainly learn to control your attitude and reactions toward them.
Everyone gets angry or irritated sometimes, and you have probably asked yourself more than once how to overcome anger.
- There is no sense in allowing circumstances and people to pull your strings and disturb your mind and feelings.
- You can choose not to let what people say and do affect your state of mind.
- You can maintain an inner attitude of emotional and mental detachment and refuse to allow every minor event to play with your feelings and cause anger.
Anger Is a Negative Emotion
I often see people getting angry over unimportant matters. An insignificant remark, a lack of satisfactory reply to a question, or just moodiness can set fire to anger, snappy comments, arguments, and even physical aggression.
This is absolutely unnecessary. Life can be happier without this behavior.
Anger is a negative reaction, which should be eliminated if you wish to progress toward self-improvement and spiritual growth.
Learning to calm down the restlessness of the mind and gaining inner peace, is one of the best and most effective methods to overcome anger, and in fact, all negative emotions.
You will reap great rewards if you are willing to invest the time and energy to get inner peace.
Peace of mind will not only help you overcome anger but also help you overcome anxiety and negative thinking and enable you to stay calm, tranquil, and self-possessed in difficult and trying situations.
A certain measure of detachment is also helpful for avoiding anger. It can protect you against being too affected by what people think, say, or do and is highly recommended.
Detachment is not an attitude of indifference and lack of sensitivity. It is an attitude of common sense and inner strength, which leads to peace of mind.
Besides peace of mind and emotional detachment, I would like to suggest a few tips.
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How to Overcome Anger – 12 Tips
How to overcome anger? There are various ways and various methods and therapies to do so. In this article, I would like to suggest a few simple ways that everyone can follow. If the problem is acute and severe, one should seek professional help.
Simple Tips for Overcoming Anger
1. Think about life with no anger
Devote a few minutes, at least once daily, to thinking about how much your life would be better without anger. Think of scenarios where you usually become angry, how your life will be, and how you would feel without it.
2. Take a few deep breaths
Take a few deep, slow breaths whenever you feel that anger arises.
3. Counting numbers
Another method to avoid irritability, resentment, or anger is to start counting slowly from one to ten. This will delay your angry reaction and weaken it.
4. Drinking and eating
Drinking some water has a calming effect on the body and feelings, as does eating something sweet.
5. Exercise
Go outside, take a short walk, or do physical exercises when possible.
6. Patience and tolerance
Try to be more patient and considerate, no matter how difficult this might be. Strive to be more tolerant of people, even those you don’t like or disagree with, their opinions.
7. Tact and diplomacy
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Even if you disagree with someone, you still need to maintain tact and diplomacy.
8. Reacting calmly
Choose to react calmly and peacefully in every situation. Try to do so repeatedly, regardless of how often you lose control and get angry.
It would help if you visualize yourself acting calmly in various everyday situations once or twice a day. This mental rehearsal would program your mind to act the same way in your daily life.
9. Positive thinking
Positive thinking makes it easier to disregard remarks and behavior that otherwise could cause anger. A positive attitude makes you a happier and more positive person. With this kind of attitude, there is less probability of expressing anger.
10. Self-control and self-discipline
A certain degree of self-control and self-discipline is a great treasure for everyone. These skills, which you can develop, can help you restrain anger, disregard it, and help you choose your reactions instead of acting rashly and without thinking.
11. Not taking things personally
Don’t take everything too seriously. Do not take everything too personally. It is not worth it.
It would be a good idea to develop some degree of detachment. A little detachment would help you stay calm and undisturbed by what people say and do and avoid being affected by their anger or negative feelings.
This is actually the topic of my book Emotional Detachment for Happier Life.
12. Smile
Find reasons to smile and laugh more often. This will help you become a happier person and make you liked more. A smile and a positive attitude can relieve tension, resentment, and anger in you and in the people around you.
Follow these 12 tips for overcoming anger, or at least a few of them, and you will see how your life and relationships improve.
About the Author
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