.:: Temper Your Temper ::. Review on Tips on How to Control Anger

Please be honest while answering the following questions. Your answers may be monitored for quality and training purposes.

1. Have you broken your monitor/printer/copier at work in the past three months? One month if you are a System Administrator

   
   




2. Can you ascribe your hair loss to your pulling it out on a regular basis? Also applies to missing buttons on your shirt, unless you are Salman Khan

   
   




3. Do you often use four letter words in front of your boss? Yeah, Boss is a four letter word as well but that doesn't count.

   
   




4. Did your car horn die out on you within a couple of months because of overuse? 15 days if you live in Delhi

   
   




5. Your boy/girl friend ditched you because you were short/fat/bald/stupid/ugly/poor? Does not apply if you are George Costanza, who happens to be all of them

   
   




6. Did you watch a movie starring Tushar Kapoor in the past 12 hours? 6 hours if it happened to be made by Ekta Kapoor as well

   
   

Now, check your answers. Add two points for every affirmative answer. If the make of the printer was Canon in question # 1 then deduct a point. If you are already bald, then there is no need for adding any points in question #2. However, for each button, add a quarter of a point. If your boss happens to be a woman in her thirties, then you need to add four points for question # 3. If she is above fifty, then deduct three points from the total. For a male boss, just follow the drill. For question # 4, if you are covered under a no-questions asked warranty and you are still in the period, then there is no need to add any points. If more than three women have ditched you in the past three months, then multiply your total by a factor of two. Ignore this question if you are gay. If you have already declared bankruptcy or have been denied any credit in the past two months, then add two points for each instance of the same. For question # 6.

STOP

Pause and think for a second. What is your state of mind at the moment? If you happen to be a normal human being, then what you are going through at the moment is a symptom of what is popularly termed as anger. While it is difficult to correctly point out to the cause for this universal killer, years of playing the underdog, dealing with a nasty boss, living with an ugly wife, tolerating a nosey girl friend, driving through Mumbai traffic and many other similar factors combine to join hands to create an angry young/middle-aged/old man or a woman.

The results can be varied which might include increased blood pressure, over eating, drinking, depression, celibacy, hair loss, decreased performance, reading Mills and Boons etc. While it may not be always necessary to know what caused it, knowing it sometimes might as well help you to overcome your obsession for serials produced by Ekta Kapoor and movies directed by Farha Khan. So what could you possibly do to counter this behavior which has a potential to go the chronic way.

Don't go into denial:

Just remember that you are angry for a reason. And the best thing is to admit it. There is a possibility that it might work to your benefit. Anger unleashes a rush of energy which if properly harnessed can have a positive effect. If you are angry about your grades, then use the energy to motivate yourself to do harder next time. If your finances are in trouble, deal with it with vengeance. If you are upset about a under performing subordinate in the office let him know that. Anger does not always kill or cause harm. There are situations in which anger can be beneficial.

However, If being angry is causing you more damage than good, feel free to read ahead.

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Recommended by Doctors:

These are some usual remedies prescribed by doctors who are angry with their patients:

• Meditation. *Just close your eyes and start counting the number of times you fooled your teachers in school and smile a bit,

  
  




• Laughing for no reason at all.* Recall Boman Irani in MunnaBhai,

  
  




• Doing something that you are really good at. Playing Freecell during office hours

  
  




• Talk it out with a good friend.* Not the stranger you met on the internet, though it might work if you are lucky.

  
  




• Practice Religion. Don't enroll in the Sena

  
  




• Stop worrying about small stuff.* Like how you got cheated at Monopoly

  
  




• Read Raj ke nikamme reviews.They are guaranteed to work

  
  




• Consult a psychologist. Not a mind reader

  
  

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Keep your MouthShut:

My apologies for the rather sorry pun. Usually when we are angry, we tend to speak many things that we would otherwise keep to ourselves. Unleashing your anger on those people close to you such as your parents and friends can really cause irreparable damage at times. The best way sometimes is to be on our own, till the steam has cooled down.

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Head for the kitchen:

By this I don't mean that you stuff your mouth with all the goodies in the fridge although that can sometimes work as well. You are unlikely to cause much damage with your mouth full. If you really wanted to be constructive, try out a new recipe.

Cooking can be an amazing technique to relieve stress and anger. Of course, it can be dangerous if you are cooking for someone you are angry upon, your boss or wife for instance(incidentally four letter words, both). Log on to the net and search for the most elaborate recipe you can think of. Even mom's recipes can help here since most of them are atleast a couple of pages long.(Atleast the ones given by mine are)

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Pet those Kids:

Pets are medically proven to reduce stress. So, unless you are around the neighbor's Doberman(It remembers those faces you make, when he is on leash), anger is bound to slowly fade away when you are playing with or just being around pets. Same is the case with kids(not those neighborhood brats who keep breaking your window panes), unless you happen to hate them, which incidentally would be a bad idea. Just being around kids is a wonderful experience. Their innocence makes you feel that all is well with this world and there is little place for anger in it.

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Run a Mile:

In case you are angry about those calories in the burger you had for breakfast, this is the time to fix it. Grab your gear and rush for the gym. Hit the treadmill and keep running. A better alternative would be to run in the woods. Any place is fine with the exception of city roads, which are likely to raise the level of anger further. By the time, you are done with the exercise, you are either too tired to feel angry or delightfully refreshed.

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