Tuesday 28 January 2014

Controlling Anger through Rational Thinking

Every individual feels angry at some point in time. Some people happen to get affected by this emotion a lot more than others. Rationalization can help you fight off the negative feeling. You must develop a single train of thought. All you really have to work on, is to develop the ability to take your mind away from the present situation, and identify the cause, effect, and likely outcome of the immediate event.

Force yourself to come out of the heat of the moment and reflect upon the various negative implications a simple fight could have. A healthy relationship with friends or family can be destroyed in just an instant if you allow yourself to give into your anger. Instead, try to see yourself slightly ahead of time. Picture yourself a little ahead of time, in a situation where you have already forgiven everything of the past. Would you really want to have hurt another individual just because you were in the spur of the moment?

Feeling regret is the harshest punishment of failing to take control of your emotions. Another way to look at things is to see what would effectively work in changing the situation for you. If a certain characteristic or behavior pattern of another individual upsets you in some way, identify the communication pattern that would be most effective in solving the issue. Only by expressing yourself will another person understand what it is that affects you. Mutual compromise and understanding leads to strong relations. 

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