What happens when a project gets delayed and the customer threatens to cancel the order, a foreign delegate visits and on the same day there is labour unrest, you go back home tired after a long day’s work and see swollen faces waiting for you to listen to their woes and sort out the rows , your family member is fighting with a crucial disease and your boss needs you on job 24*7, a dear one does not live up to your expectations, does things contrary to your liking?
You feel highly stressed, maybe angry too and just don’t know who’s head to break. Is’nt it?
The list of such situations can be endless. There are instances when it is nearly impossible to control one’s temper or a highly negative reaction. And it is so very natural to be angry, sad, worried, stressed out, when something bad happens or is about to happen. No one stops us from expressing elation, then why can’t we express anguish or any negative emotion? We have still not become robots, have we?
NO, we have not become robots and are not even aspiring for becoming the same, yet we need to manage negative emotions because of their following ill effects:
Anger/ stress/ negative emotions-
* Produce toxins in blood
* Damage brain cells that are not regenerated
* Increase blood pressure, pressure on heart
* Increase risk of life threatening diseases
* Devastate a situation, relationship, work forever
* Key of your control goes to all and sundry
* Give your rivals a chance to misuse your emotions
* Take you into a vicious cycle of negativity
Hence, it is highly crucial to manage anger and other negative emotions. Here are a few techniques as per the Western & Eastern approaches.
Anger/ stress management techniques as per Western approach: All of them to be done alone.
* Bang on a pillow
* Hold a newspaper tightly and hit it on the table or wall remembering the person or situation that created negativity
* Scream and shout
* Cry
* Play a tough game
* Jump, party, dance
* Consume a mood elevator or an anti-depressant
Anger/ stress management techniques as per Eastern approach:
* Pray
* Chant a mantra, prayer, positive quotation
* Visualize happy moments
* Visualize people, things that bring you happiness and serenity
* Be in proximity with nature
* Read a good book
* Listen to soft music
* Meditate (gradually)
* Participate in bhajans-clap & sing with all your energy
* Go and help someone
I personally advocate the eastern approach because it provides a long term and perennial solution and helps one emerge, stronger, happier and successful. So, let's try these and manage our anger and stress, and enter the realms of everlasting success and happiness.
