How successful people deal with Anger?

Amit Khandelwal
Life In Short
Published in
3 min readJun 18, 2020

Improving your emotional intelligence is often about what you do less of, not more of.

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We all feel it.

We feel it a number of times. For a lot of people it occurs way too much and whenever we feel it, we end up saying things that we don’t want to be saying.
We end up doing things that we shouldn’t be doing. And sometimes we end up doing something bad for ourselves or for our belongings.

And Gautam Buddha has described anger in a beautiful manner. He said that:

“Imagine there is a piece of hot burning coal in your hand and you want to hold that coal piece and throw it at someone so that they get burnt but before you do that, coal ends up burning your own hand. And that piece of coal is known as Anger.”

All You Need to Know

Anger is a normal feeling and can be a positive emotion when it helps you work through issues or problems, whether that’s at work or at home.

However, anger can become problematic if it leads to aggression, outbursts, or even physical altercations.

Managing anger does not involve holding it in or avoiding associated feelings.

Coping with anger is an acquired skill — almost anyone can learn to control the feelings with time, patience, and dedication.

Anger control is important for helping you avoid saying or doing something you may regret. Before anger escalates, you can use following specific strategies for controlling anger -

  1. If you find yourself in a heated conversation, take a break at that moment. You can take a deep breath, you can go to washroom, you can go to take water, you can listen your favourite music.
  2. Take few deep breaths and calm down your mind and try to analyse the situation.
  3. You can write all that you want to say, all that you want to do at that moment.
  4. Take a pause at that moment and discuss things with your friends, your love ones.
  5. You can go for a walk.
  6. Then analyse your thoughts, then you will realise how can my mind think that much harsh for them and guilt will take place of the anger.

Try the above steps for once before doing anything and follow the one suits you. Thanks, if you read.

When a man thinks of objects, attachment for them arises. From attachment arises desire; from desire arises wrath.

From wrath arises delusion; from delusion, failure of memory; from failure of memory,loss of conscience; from loss of conscience he is utterly ruined.

— The Holy Bhagavada Geeta, chapter 2,[62–63]

Have you ever found your self in such a situation, where you said something that you don’t want to, where you did something that you don’t want to. Share your experience in the comment.

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Amit Khandelwal
Life In Short

Writer of all things quirky — life, lifestyle, humor, comedy, mental health. writing about small steps that helped me come out of depression.