5 Steps To Adjusting Your Expectations
Dateline: January 4th. Orange County Anger Management class participants review anger triggers of the week.
Jane, age 23, engaged to be married: “My boyfriend openly flirts with other women in front of me.” (more…)
Anger Management Strategies And Advice
This article looks at strategies and gives advice to help people control their anger. I am sure that we all become angry from time to time and want to lash out at the people who are annoying us or who have let us down. This is course is not the answer and the article gives tips on how we should be responding to these situations. (more…)
Leading With A Chip On Your Shoulder
A Marine company commander I knew of had a memorable way of introducing himself to his platoon commanders. He called them into his office, gave them each a laminated wallet card, then dismissed them without saying a word.
The wallet card read, “Seven Ways To Get Me Angry.”
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Dealing With An Angry Person
Everyone is periodically faced with an angry person, and can be challenging to deal with. I’d like to share a few ideas in how to react to another’s anger, whether it’s a spouse, friend, or even a stranger. Some of these will also apply if you are angry yourself, which of course is something to avoid in the first place. (more…)
Is Road Rage A Psychiatric Disorder?
Recent headline: “Road Rage may be due to medical condition called Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)”
WHAT IS THE SCIENCE BEHIND THIS?
The study, reported in the June (2006) issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry (more…)
Are You Trapped By Old Beliefs?
If you have ever wondered what kinds of beliefs you have stored away in your unconscious that silently influence your choices, take a good look at your life, including your friends, your loved ones, your job, and even your health.
The life you currently live is a reflection of your beliefs (more…)
Why You Never Get What You Truly Want
Many of us, whether we know it or not, live within a prison of our own making. This prison has no metal bars, nor can its walls be seen by the naked eye; however, it is every bit as effective in keeping us from our freedom as a real prison cell. It’s called our comfort zone
Comfort zones can take on a variety of different forms, from the area (more…)
Anger And Rejections
Rejections are normal and we all are told no on many occasions. Some persons have difficulty handling rejections and may react hastily to the other person involved. If you walk in a bank and apply for a loan and are rejected you might stomp out the door shouting obscene talk to the lenders. This is not an appropriate way to handle the situation. (more…)
Stop Seeing Red Through Hypnotherapy For Anger Management
Let’s begin by counting how many times you got angry today. Did you honk a tad bit extra to get people out of your way as you were late to work? Did you throw a fit because your kid wouldn’t have his glass of milk, and you wondered “Why God, why me?” Were you upset because your spouse spent the evening at work, (more…)
How To Cope With Anger
Since anger is one of the leading problems in society, we must learn how to cope. There is not one time in our lives that we all have not experienced anger and maybe even acted out of control. When someone hurts us, irritates, aggravates, harass, threatens, or let us down we call get mad. Anger is either our worst enemy or our best friend (more…)