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Let Us Take A Look At Forms Of Anger Management Activities


By Cindy Drake

Anger is all around us, and can spring up without warning in the most unusual situations and places. Usually it stems from a small incident that just gets out of control and other times it can be a deep seated anger or grudge that just will not go away until some sort of intervention is done to resolve it. This is where anger management activities come into play.

Holding a grudge can have significant traumatic effects on your health and well being, and the anger that ensues from such behavior is totally detrimental to your overall state of mind, and can affect your working environment, especially if the source of that anger is from the workplace. You need to find some anger management activities that can help get rid of that stress, and sometimes, just having a face to face encounter with the source of the grudge or anger will work, and other times, you need to have a group encounter to have confrontation and discussion with the group involved.

There are a great variety of anger management activities around these days; and many of them are not just involving a group situation like you would find in the workplace; but more often, activities that you can do when you are totally alone to defuse the anger you are feeling building inside you. One of these very popular activities is journaling. Journaling is a very powerful means to get the stress out that is eating you up from the inside out, because it is harnessing that anger and getting the raw emotion out on paper using rational thought to express it, and letting you sort out what it is you are feeling rather than taking it out on someone else, which could be catastrophic.

The workplace is often a source of anger and stress for most people because you have multiple personalities working together in a confined space, and flareups over any number of things is bound to occur. People are all different, and the people we are forced to work with, may not necessarily be the folks we would socialize with or have as friends, so clashes are inevitable.

There is another whole world out there that can be tapped for anger management activities and that is the world of the Internet and its chat rooms. There you can find people who are going through similar situations as you are, or feel the same anger about various things, and are trying to deal with that anger and stress by talking it out with other people of like minds. Questions can be asked back and forth, and solutions offered to what may have seemed to be an unsolvable problem.

Getting things out of your system is always good, because the pressure is released and the opportunity is no longer there to go out and hurt someone. When you use a form of catharsis, you can get those feelings out and there is no need to involve anyone else, you are just writing in a journal and no one else will see what you have written. That in itself is beneficial, because you can let your feelings flow, examine what pushes your buttons, and why you feel like you do in certain situations. What in your past made you feel angry, despondent, hurt or abandoned----all of this can be dealt with on paper with abandon.

Anger management activities are in abundance everywhere and you must choose the forms that you feel will work the best for you depending upon your makeup and your personality. Sometimes group interaction is required, sometimes just writing by yourself in a journal where no one else will see what you have written is the best way. Whichever type of activity you choose, keep with it until you feel a sense of relief and release, because that is the indicator that you have released the anger and things are on the way up.

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