If you think that you never have a hot temper, you may want to read this. Every person has hot temper. Only most of us have it hidden in our subconscious mind. It is like a sleeping volcano waiting to explode. Once it comes, it acts so fast that you can hardly control it. Anger is one of the biggest causes of fighting or assaults nowadays and has been for a long time. This article shows how to effectively deal with anger. It can be useful for not only those who are prone to be angry all the time, but also some who are not angry so often.
Let me share with you one of my stories. The other day I parked my car in a parking lot. I was preparing my briefcase to go out for a meeting in the car. There was a guy who came to his car. He did not noticed me and open his car door so harsh that his door scratched my car. I went out and we had big argument. Although, I am a nice person and never have any quarrel with anybody. That day I almost went to a fight and kill the guy. This may be exaggerated but who knows. Luckily, my mobile rang and the person I want to meet called me. That was the only thing that drives me away from the potential fighting scene.
This is the example that the situation can happen without prior notice. It can come up and get out of control even with a person who is considered cool-minded. Once you realize, disaster might have happened. After that day, I learned how to control my emotion and practiced to avoid all other bad emotions. The following tips can be useful for you if you want to also control your hot temper.
1.Take a deep breath.
Get more oxygen into your brain when things are out of control. Oxygen supply will make your brain works better and so your consciousness. This is to prevent you from express your anger unconsciously.
2.Walk away from the scene.
Do not be afraid of being accused of being coward. Walking away give your consciousness back. No matter who is the other side in the argument, leave the scene. This can save you from trouble and save you a lot of time.
3.Be brave to accept that you may be wrong or used to be wrong.
When others do bad thing to us, we feel that they are unforgivable. But when we reckon back, we found that we somehow used to do similar mistake. We did not really give ourselves much harsh feeling. Accept that mistakes can be common in life.
4.Forgive the other side no matter if he is right or wrong
Don't let the matter to be too personal. Let it go. If the damage is not substantial, do not waste your time and emotion there. I know this is hard. You need to be very conscious to forgive people. It needs a lot of practice. But believe me. It will give you an extraordinary quality in life.
5.Wish yourself well as well as others everyday
One of the tips is to give mercy to yourself and others in every morning. After you get up from your bed, you may spend some time to write your goals. Look at your goals. Look at your action plan list. Then you can pray if you are religious. Feel gratitude for what you already have. Then you visualize which will be our next tip. The last thing you need to do is to forgive yourself and others and wish all well with peaceful mind. It will release you from the upset mind and give you strength when you face uncontrollable situation.
6.Make visualization daily
You may think how visualization can work to improve your anger situation. We normally visualize the desirable situation. It is more on situation that is related to our goal achievement. You visualize yourself as you already achieve the goal everyday. Your visualization will attract the situation and attributes favorable to achieving the goal into your life. It can also drive unfavorable situation away. This is according to the universal law called "Law of Attraction". I believe that my daily visualization prevent me from going into a fight which is absolutely not relevant to my goal. You can add background audio into your visualization. It will enhance the power of your attraction. There are many in the market. Attraction Accelerator can be one of your choices.
Bad temper may or may not be your weak point. There may be some day that we are in the situation that bad temper can lead to disaster. This article shows you how to deal with such hot temper.
How To Deal Anger
HOW YOUR OUTLOOK INFLUENCES HEALTH AND ABILITY TO CONTROL ANGER
Jane and Anthony have differing ways of viewing the world. Jane is a pessimist (the glass is half-empty), while Anthony is an optimist (the glass is half-full). These outlooks influence how they experience similar situations.
SCENARIO 1: JOB LOSS
Jane is devastated, convincing herself that she is all washed up, she can never catch a break, it is useless for to try to be successful, and she is never going to succeed at anything.
Anthony, however, has a healthier inner dialog. He tells himself he may not have been good at that particular job, his skills and company's needs did not mesh, and being fired was only a temporary setback in his career.
SCENARIO 2: NEW JOBS
Offered a new job, Jane, the pessimist, believes she was able to find a new job only because her industry is now really desperate for people, and must have lowered their standards to hire her.
Anthony, however, feels he landed the new job because his talents were finally recognized and he can now be appreciated for what he can do.
IMPLICATIONS
As these examples illustrate, optimists tend to interpret their troubles as transient, controllable and specific to situations. Recent research by Dr. Marvin Seligman confirms this. When good things happen, optimists believe the causes are permanent, resulting from traits and abilities.
Optimists further believe that good events will enhance everything they do.
Pessimists, on the other hand, believe their troubles will last forever, will undermine everything they do, and are basically beyond their control. When good things happen to pessimists, they see them as temporary and caused by specific factors that will eventually change and lead to negative outcomes.
BENEFITS OF OPTIMISM
Optimism creates better resistance to depression when bad events strike, better performance at work, and better physical health.
In fact, one long term study at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, MN, found that optimists lived 19% longer than pessimists.
Optimism is also a powerful antidote to anger. Many participants in our anger management classes report their anger
lessening as they learn to replace negative thinking with positive thinking.
GOOD NEWS FOR NEGATIVE THINKERS
You can learn how to replace pessimism with optimism.
If you scored lower than you'd like, you can become more optimistic. As Dr. Seligman writes in Authentic Happiness his latest book: "the trait of optimism is changeable and learnable."
LEARNING TO BE AN OPTIMIST
There is now a well-documented method for building optimism. It's based on first, recognizing, and then disputing, pessimistic thoughts.
People often do not pay attention to their thoughts and thus do not recognize how destructive they can be in leading to negative emotions.
The key is to recognize your pessimistic thoughts and then treat them as if they were uttered by someone else-an external person, a rival, whose mission in life is to make you miserable!
Basically, you can become an optimist by learning to disagree with yourself- challenging your pessimistic thinking patterns and replacing them with more positive patterns.
Note: this view of optimistic thinking is not the process of "positive thinking" in the sense of repeating silly affirmations that you really don't believe.
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