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ANGER MANAGEMENT: HOW TO CALM DOWN: Quickly. Effectively. Before You Do Or Say Something STUPID.
THE PROBLEM AND THE REMEDYThese days, our peace of mind is more at risk than ever. Between the joblessness, political tensions, economic instability, and the overwhelming number of growing concerns in our world, there is no shortage of things to be upset by.
While many of the problems we face are indeed large, many of them are not as big as we make them in our heads. We often magnify our problems and even create new problems when we become irrational. Almost more important than any problem we face is our method(s) for dealing with it. Our perspective of it and our ability to stay anchored while facing it.
Life doesn’t always give us a lot of time to react. We may only have a split second to decide how we will respond to our kids when they are pushing our buttons or to our coworkers when they are not respecting our boundaries. We get one second to act, and a whole lifetime to live with the consequences. It almost doesn’t seem fair.
If there is one thing hindsight almost ALWAYS shows us, it is that a calm response would have been better – even though it felt good to say or do mean things while we were angry, panicky, or afraid. So often, we have seen that our impulses can lead us 180 degrees off track, and that our lives would be better served by adopting a calmer approach to our life stressors. So then, what is the issue? The issue is that changing just isn’t easy.
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO CALM DOWN?Why does it so often feel like an IMPOSSIBLE feat to regulate our emotions? Why is it so hard to control our moods, our tempers, and our reactions during life’s heated moments? Often, it’s because we don’t really WANT to.
When you see some idiot driving slow in the fast lane, making you late for work, you suddenly no longer can see the virtues in staying calm and rational. Those virtues are replaced by momentary urges to demonstrate your frustration or to serve justice with a few choice words. Truth be told, a lot of the battle lies in regaining our desire to be calmer. Until then, we are unlikely to achieve a goal that we aren’t really interested in achieving.
This book will show you that calmness IS worth achieving, and that it’s far better than swinging a giant wrecking ball into the things that you’ve worked so hard to build. It will also tell you exactly how that is done.
THIS BOOK · 30 strategies for calming down.
· Real-life stories and helpful, practical examples.
· Insights as to WHY we get worked-up, and why it’s SO HARD to actually calm down.
· Inspiration and incentives to CALM DOWN (when you’d rather stay upset).
· The benefits of being able to stay calm.
· The disadvantages of NOT being able to stay calm.
· Fun commentary and opportunities for personal discovery.
· Guidance to GET BACK IN CONTROL of your situation, your happiness, and your life!
· Much, much m
While many of the problems we face are indeed large, many of them are not as big as we make them in our heads. We often magnify our problems and even create new problems when we become irrational. Almost more important than any problem we face is our method(s) for dealing with it. Our perspective of it and our ability to stay anchored while facing it.
Life doesn’t always give us a lot of time to react. We may only have a split second to decide how we will respond to our kids when they are pushing our buttons or to our coworkers when they are not respecting our boundaries. We get one second to act, and a whole lifetime to live with the consequences. It almost doesn’t seem fair.
If there is one thing hindsight almost ALWAYS shows us, it is that a calm response would have been better – even though it felt good to say or do mean things while we were angry, panicky, or afraid. So often, we have seen that our impulses can lead us 180 degrees off track, and that our lives would be better served by adopting a calmer approach to our life stressors. So then, what is the issue? The issue is that changing just isn’t easy.
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO CALM DOWN?Why does it so often feel like an IMPOSSIBLE feat to regulate our emotions? Why is it so hard to control our moods, our tempers, and our reactions during life’s heated moments? Often, it’s because we don’t really WANT to.
When you see some idiot driving slow in the fast lane, making you late for work, you suddenly no longer can see the virtues in staying calm and rational. Those virtues are replaced by momentary urges to demonstrate your frustration or to serve justice with a few choice words. Truth be told, a lot of the battle lies in regaining our desire to be calmer. Until then, we are unlikely to achieve a goal that we aren’t really interested in achieving.
This book will show you that calmness IS worth achieving, and that it’s far better than swinging a giant wrecking ball into the things that you’ve worked so hard to build. It will also tell you exactly how that is done.
THIS BOOK · 30 strategies for calming down.
· Real-life stories and helpful, practical examples.
· Insights as to WHY we get worked-up, and why it’s SO HARD to actually calm down.
· Inspiration and incentives to CALM DOWN (when you’d rather stay upset).
· The benefits of being able to stay calm.
· The disadvantages of NOT being able to stay calm.
· Fun commentary and opportunities for personal discovery.
· Guidance to GET BACK IN CONTROL of your situation, your happiness, and your life!
· Much, much m
215 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 16, 2019
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January 13, 2022
There are some exciting things within this book I’ll be going back to. However, overall a lot of this information I think is common knowledge but just not things acted upon. Yet, the author has some good takes to bring the reader into some excellent practices for managing anger. I don’t know how many things in the book would help you to calm down from anger in a moment of anger quickly; many things in the book seem more applicable to handle and change an angry disposition, generally speaking. Also, an issue with the text is there’s no actual notation, like endnotes, to show you where to look for something via the sources he sites. Then there is how he uses the word exercise in two different sections; it didn’t seem like a good structuring technique. The book is straightforward to read you can get through it rather quickly. The book would be a great reference source, particularly the later half of it to go to a particular topic, re-read it and apply some of the information points. Overall I’m happy I read it but was disappointed that it didn’t seem to address getting calm down in a moment precisely enough.
July 26, 2019
Self help to control anger and temper explosions.
This book is about getting and keeping control of your temper when you feel it reach the boiling point and you are going to explode. There are several strategies that will help you to handle the stress and deal with it in a positive way. The author uses a combination of strategies as well as real life stories to guide you through the process of getting control, calming down , and remaining in control. This book can be a useful tool to anyone who is experiencing anger issues and looking for a way to harness that anger and redirect it. Check it out and let me know what you think.
This book is about getting and keeping control of your temper when you feel it reach the boiling point and you are going to explode. There are several strategies that will help you to handle the stress and deal with it in a positive way. The author uses a combination of strategies as well as real life stories to guide you through the process of getting control, calming down , and remaining in control. This book can be a useful tool to anyone who is experiencing anger issues and looking for a way to harness that anger and redirect it. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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