It can be exhausting to stand in long lines, cope with rude remarks from coworkers, and drive through never-ending traffic. While being irritated by these minor irritations is a natural reaction to stress, being disturbed all of the time can be harmful.
It's no secret that allowing your anger to simmer or having rage outbursts can be detrimental to your personal and professional relationships. However, it has an effect on your health. Constantly stifling our anger might result in bodily and mental repercussions such as elevated blood pressure and anxiety.
The good news is that you can learn to control and redirect your rage in a productive manner.
Take few deep breaths.
It's easy to lose track of your breathing in the intensity of the moment. When you're angry, however, your shallow breathing maintains you in fight-or-flight mode.
To counteract this, consider inhaling slowly and steadily from your belly rather than your chest. This helps your body to rapidly relax.
This breathing practice can also be kept in your back pocket:
• Find a chair or a comfortable location to sit so that your neck and shoulders may relax completely.
• Take a deep breath through your nose and notice how your stomach rises.
• Take a deep breath and exhale through your mouth.
• Do this exercise for 5 to 10 minutes three times a day, or as needed.
Recite a soothing mantra to yourself.
Repeating a calming phrase might help you express unpleasant emotions like anger and irritation more easily.
When you're feeling overwhelmed by a circumstance, try softly repeating, "Take it easy," or "Everything's going to be okay." If you want, you can say it out loud, but you can also say it silently or in your brain.
Move your body with awareness.
Sitting still might sometimes make you feel even more worried or tense. Tension in your muscles can be relieved by moving your body mindfully with yoga and other relaxing exercises.
Take a walk or do some light dancing the next time you're confronted with a stressful scenario to take your mind off it.
Examine your viewpoint.
Stress can distort your perspective of reality, making you feel as if the world is conspiring against you. Try to keep your perspective in mind the next time you feel angry.
Everybody has bad days now and again, and tomorrow will be a new day.
Use comedy to calm down a tense situation.
Finding comedy in a tense situation might help you maintain a level head. This isn't to say that you should laugh your issues away, but it can help to approach them in a more humorous manner.
Consider how this event would appear to an outsider the next time your fury flares up. How could this possibly be amusing to them?
You'll have more chances to see how little annoyances are in the grand scheme of things if you don't take yourself too seriously.
Change your environment.
Take some personal time away from your local surroundings to give yourself a rest.
Take a drive or a lengthy walk if your home is untidy and causing you worry. When you return, you'll probably discover that you're more prepared to sort through the chaos.
Concentrate on what you value.
While it may seem natural to concentrate on your day's tragedies, it will not benefit you in the short or long run.
Instead, try focused on the positive aspects of your experience. If you can't find a silver lining in your day, consider how things may have turned out even worse.
