Anger Issues - Need solid strategies

Postby Coldnestea » Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:55 pm

Hello everyone, thank you in advance for any advice you give me. I obviously have anger issues, and would like some strategies to avoid losing my temper. When I argue with my girlfriend, the arguments usually go as such: She says something that offends me (99% of the time it is unintentional), I feel wounded/offended on this inexplicable cosmic level, I try and defend myself with logic, which very quickly turns into anger if she doesn't immediately concede to me. Once I get angry, all my logic goes out the window and I resort to yelling at her.

I feel like understanding myself and why I get angry is a good first step. I get angry because I feel that any offense or transgression against me hits me right in my moral center, and I will do anything to *win*.

What strategies can I use to curb my anger? Normally in other aspects of life (work, friendships, family) I have zero history of anger problems. It's mainly with her. And I know she isn't the problem, it is me.

Thanks.
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Postby laureat » Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:02 am

it is important to face situations that we feel uncomfortable (fearful, aggressive, anxious) because we are giving ourselves time to understand ; new ways how to approach that situation:

We learn to make better EXPECTATIONS from ourselves; from people around:

instead of PANIC we learn to choose other options: IGNORING, SURRENDERING, RELAXING, we learn to choose other OPTIONS on that same SITUATION that we used to PANIC

We create different believes, different perception about the situation: you feel about that situation different because: EXPECTATIONS, BELIEVES, PERCEPTION are different; and so your APPROACH to that situation becomes different:
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Postby JuliusFawcett » Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:29 am

You have made a powerful first step in recognising that the solution comes from within yourself. Forgiveness of past hurts, accepting her as she is, surrendering and not needing to win. If you can choose between kindness and being right then always choose kindness. Your egoic thought patterns may well resist, but you would like a kind and loving relationship and not fights.

This video can help you, wearing headphones makes it more powerful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGgnx4f ... YwdCN2DLoN
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