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How to Stay
Cool-Tempered
How to Stay
Cool-Tempered
by
Daniel Theyagu
Anger
Management is not Anger Control. It is about how you channel this power
emotion into a more constructive avenue. There is good anger and bad
anger. Good anger can motivate you to take positive action. You can
learn some useful techniques on how you can channel your anger to get
positive results in your life. Too often in your life, you might succumb
to losing your temper and just as you do you regret your action. Anger
is a powerful emotion. It has both a positive and negative effect in
your life. Ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle said: "Anybody can
become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person and to
the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and
in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not
easy.
When
you control your anger you are just delaying the inevitable in that you
are already angry and that feeling of anger is being suppressed
temporarily. Sooner or later it will re-surface and when it does the
feeling might be magnified and become deadlier. What you need to do is
learn how to manage your anger. That way you will have an effective
control of this powerful emotion and use it in a more beneficial ways.
The
objective of managing anger is in your ability to channel both your
emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes
towards a more constructive course of action. It is important that you
realize that you can't get rid of or avoid anger. There will be people
or events that occurs in your life that will enrage you and there is
nothing you could do to change these things. However, if someone is able
to make you angry it just goes to show that they can get into your mind
and manipulate your reasoning to generate the feeling of anger. This
makes them more powerful and you will feel emotionally inapt. Such a
weakness of the mind might enrage you into taking drastic actions
believing that this will compensate for your ability to deal with the
feeling of anger.
The
first thing you need to understand in managing your anger is that anger
can both be a positive thing and a negative one.
Positive anger can arise in several ways. If you feel that something is
being done unfairly or that people in your life have not got their fair
share of justice, although it may not concern you directly you feel a
sense of anger. Such anger may trigger you to take action to see what
you can do to alleviate this situation. In this way you will feel
energized as you have a cause to live for and this might inspire you to
take positive action. Further such a positive anger will also allow you
to communicate your feeling about the issues that are bothering you and
perhaps get other people fired up as well to take action. This might
help you release tension in a constructive way. As you are motivated by
this feeling of positive anger you might also be able to resolve hidden
conflicts and discover new information about the situation that shed
some light on what you can do to change it.
If
anger is used inappropriately, it may cause other symptoms that give
negative results. When channeled ineffectively, anger will disrupt your
life and your relationship with your family, friends and working
colleagues. Negative anger will also control your thought process and
leaves a negative impression of the thing or person you are angry at.
This will inevitably disallow you from looking at the situation
objectively and you become biased and opinionated. Your action or words
might hurt others and cause them to lose respect for you which in turn
will cause other forms of emotional problems. Chinese philosopher,
Confucius said: "When anger arises, think of the consequence."
Healthy body gives healthy mind. The reverse is also true in that a
healthy mind makes a healthy body. In a journal published by the
American Heart Association, a study conducted showed that people who are
more prone to getting angry are three times more likely to have a
cardiac arrest leading to fatality as compared to people who are less
anger prone.
Negative anger clouds your rationality and good sense of judgment. This
will make you feel physically and emotionally drained. Greek thinker
Epictetus said: "If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed
the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
This
in principle espouses the need for you to manage your anger. The choice
to be angry and stay angry is one that only you should be allowed to
make. If you want to resolve matters or conflict with others you first
need to be in control of your feelings. Late Indian Prime Minister,
Indira Gandhi puts it: "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Dr
Daniel Theyagu is a corporate trainer and seminar leader who has
designed and conducted competency-based training for more than 150
organizations. He is based in Singapore and can be reached at
dtheyagu@singnet.com.sg
Website:
http://www.thinklaterally.com/
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