How To Use Positive Thinking To Reduce Anger

Contrary to the popular belief, feeling angry is actually a healthy and natural response to certain events. 

These events can be something that is caused by your surrounding environment such as missing your bus or flight. Or they can be caused by events that have happened to you at an earlier date or by events that are happening in your personal life.

Your body goes through a whole series of biochemical changes when you become angry. Your blood levels rise, your heart rate increases, as are your hormone and adrenaline levels.

Demonstrating anger at certain times is appropriate and has been ingrained deep inside us as a survival instinct.

When you or your family are threatened, you react out of anger. Who isn't going to defend themselves or loved ones when necessary?

However, problems occur in the way that you react to certain situations. If your child is hurt, then your reaction is going to be more severe than when arguing with a co-worker.

Unfortunately these extremes or responses are not always appropriate. You may find that you totally lose it with a co-worker instead of attempting to just talk things out. When this happens, you have to admit that you have an anger management issue and you proactively take steps to rectify it.

One way to do this is by using positive thinking. You want to learn how to objectively look at what you can learn from the situation and how to handle it in a more constructive beneficial way.

If a particular person is making you angry, try to think about them in a more positive light and actively figure out what you can learn from this annoying person.

Don't just focus on what he or she does that makes your blood boil. Look for their merits and strengths instead. Maybe they are awesome with creating new software program for your company, even they have a bad attitude problem.

One way to improve the way you think is to start using positive affirmations on a daily basis.

Quite often it is the way you view a situation that is the cause of your anger, and not the actual situation itself.

You may just be feeling stressed out so your emotions are the moment bring out your bad side.

So you always want to invest some personal time for yourself. You want to spend some time alone to exercise, to meditate, to reflect and to think clearly (maybe during a relaxing warm bath after a long day).

The next time you react in an angry manner, take 2 minutes and do some deep breathing exercises. Calm your mind before you think about the best way to respond.

In case you reacted too recklessly, ask yourself if your reaction is justified or not. If no, then look for another way on how you can handle the situation in a more positive way next time.

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