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How to Control Your Anger: Unlock 8 Simple Steps
You have a choice when it comes to controlling your anger
Anger is the sensation your brain gets when you feel you are shortchanged. Perhaps someone cuts in front of you in the checkout line, or a lazy work colleague takes credit for the work that you did. Or maybe someone you love has betrayed or wronged you. We all express anger at some point in our lives. It may come to some as a momentary aggravation or to others as full-fledged outrage.
The critical thing to realize is that anger is normal. It is a healthy human emotion that, in itself, it is neither good nor bad. But learning how to control your anger is vital if you want to create an intentional life.
The issue comes with when and how it is expressed. Anger is a natural response to injustice or bad behavior. Still, when it is poorly managed, it may blow up and cause unintended consequences in your personal relationships, work, and life quality.
In the words of the great philosopher Aristotle, “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 and is not easy.”
