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What To Do About Anger

1. Recognize the blocks to anger use and try and stop using them.

2. risk being judged own your feelings.

3. If your anger is about something that happened in the past, change your attitude to the past. The best way to do this is to be compeltely honest with yourself (look at your own part in it and/or put yourself in the other person's shoes) and express your feelings openly.

4. Don't let yourself react to the anger and emotions of others - don't take their problems on yourself and allow them to get you angry.

5. Humour can help dissipate anger - it helps put things in perspective.

6. Write an angry letter but don't mail it.

7. Made a telephone call but keep your finger on the button.

8. Pound a pillow. Scream, etc.

9. Learn to recognize the physical ways you feel angry and use them as warning signs that you need to communicate your feelings better.

10. Talk to the person you are angry at. Don't look for sympathy elsewher e- this merely fans the flames of the anger.

11. Lessen anger through exercise.

12. Keep a journal o r do something creative.

13. Use assertive rather than aggressive behavior.

14. Forgiveness cleans the slate.

15. If the anger is a reaction to guilt then the guilt has to be dealt with.

16. Use the anger as a motivator to do something positive.