Stress Management
Stress may trigger anger. Stress is often the trigger that takes us from feeling peaceful to experiencing uncomfortable angry feelings. Stress is most easily defined as a series of bodily responses to demands made upon us, called stressors. Stressors can be negative (such as coping with a driver who cuts in front of you), external (such as work pressure) or internal (such as feeling guilty about something that you did).
Understanding how does stress come about, scientists have discovered that the major systems of the body work together to provide one of the human organism’s mist powerful defenses, that help us to cope with stressors, before our stress response turns into anger or aggression.
Among the strategies are, read your personal warning lights. Becoming aware of your stress response, which means listening to your body, being aware of your negative emotions, and observing your own behavior when under stress.
Secondly, try to gain a new perspective on the stressing situation. By doing this, our stress response can indeed be a response (controllable) instead of reaction (automatic).
Next, stress-guard your life, by making necessary life-style changes to reduce or minimize feeling stressed-out. For instance, manage your time / money better, or consider changing your job or occupation.
Stress will easily turn into anger if they are not handled properly, therefore, it is important to recognise these stress responses and develop techniques to lessen the impact.
