Simple Ways of Controlling Your Anger

Anger must be considered mainly because it can affect a relationship towards one another. The story of an employee being fired by his boss because of misunderstanding and that the latter cannot hold back anymore his anger and bursts in front of the former is not new to us. In fact, this is a very good example to give. In the end the employee lost his job just because he has gone out of control of his anger. This makes the consideration of anger control very important in any relationship that we have for anger can totally change our life in an instant the moment it arises.

We value our relationships with our loved ones as much as we value ourselves. And so, keeping a healthy relationship with them is a must and one factor to ruin it is our outraging anger. Here are simple ways to save that relationship from falling apart which you can apply when you seem to take anger out of control.

• We’ve been told that counting from 1-10 can hold back our anger. Well, this is very much true. One way of controlling anger is distracting your focus towards the situation. By doing so, you are lessening the level of your anger, making you able to think more rationally and arriving at reasonable decisions.

• Another effective way is to take a short walk away from the scenario. If the first one won’t work then this step will. If you feel like bursting out in anger turn around and heed towards the door. Walk briskly and come back when you are already calm.

• Lastly, release all those energy that you have through sports, shopping or anything that you love doing. Try to find time to enjoy yourself no matter how busy or hectic your work schedule is. This is one way of rewarding yourself for all the efforts that you have done and chances of anger buildup is diminished for you become satisfied and happy with what you are doing. The happier and contented you are the more anger cannot take over, at least in considerable situations.

These are just simple ways in managing your anger, very simple yet hard to apply at first. These require constant practice and dedication to become a better person.