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The 8 Tools of Anger Control — Tool 5 — Communciate Assertively

December, 2004

Anger expressed toward others is often a misguided way of communciating a feeling we have or a need that is not being satisfied by other people or situtaions. Assertive communication is a set of skills to teach you how to honestly and effectively communciate how you feel and how you are responding to things — without getting angry or hostile about it.

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The 8 Tools of Anger Control — Tool 4 — Change That Conversation

November, 2004

What you tell yourself is what you get. We are constantly having inner conversations — also called self-talk — which create, decrease, or intensify our feelings and emotional states, including anger. Learning to recognize and modify that conversation is an important tool in anger control.

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The 8 Tools of Anger Control — Tool 3 — Respond Instead of React

October, 2004

Many times we become angry because we find people and situations that literally "push our buttons," and we react just like a juke box that automatically pulls down a record and starts playing when you make a selection. Rather than reacting to ange rtriggers in this fashion, you can learn to choose how to deal with frustrating situations — to respond rather than automatically react that like juke box.

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The 8 Tools of Anger Control — Tool 2 — Empathy

September, 2004

To empathize is to see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, and to feel with the heart of another. Lack of empathy leads to poor communication and a failing to understand others. To manage anger, it often helps to see our anger as a combination of other peoples behavior and our lack of empathy.

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The 8 Tools of Anger Control — Tool 1 — Recognize Stress Before It Turns Into Anger

August, 2004

Stress is often the trigger that takes us from feeling peaceful to experiencing uncomfortable angry feelings in many common situations. Before your stress response turns into anger or aggression, use these strategies to get it under control: (1) Read your personal warning lights, (2) What you see is what you get, (3) Stress-Guard your life.

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Anger and Your Health — Part 4 — The Optimistic Marriage

July, 2004

The message is clear from both clinical experience and research: optimism helps marriage. When your partner does something that displeases you, try hard to find a believable, temporary, and specific explanation for it.

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Anger and Your Health — Part 3 — How to Raise an Optimistic Child

June, 2004

Parents can influence the thinking styles of their children by modeling the principals of optimistic thinking.

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Anger and Your Health — Part 2 — Learn to Use Optimism to Manage Anger and Improve your Health

May, 2004

At its core, optimism is a style of interpreting events that occur in your world - it is your personal theory or explanation of why both good things and bad things happen to you. To become an optimist, you must master the skill of arguing with yourself!

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Anger and Your Health — Part 1 — How your Outlook Influences Health and Ability to Control Anger.

April, 2004

Optimism creates better rsistance to depression when bad events strike, better performance at work, and better physical health. Optimism is also a powerful antidote to anger. By teaching yourself to think differnetly you can morph yourself from a pessimist to an optimist-and tame the anger bee in the process.

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Anger and Your Driving — Part 2 — Using Self-Talk to Create a Safer Vista.

March, 2004

Angry feelings are a normal response to driving frustrations. Unfortunately, our "automatic thoughts" may increase these feelings and cause us to lose control. Learning different "self-talk" gives us a powerful tool to control our negative emotions ont he road so we can avoid death, serious injury or legal problems.

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Anger and Your Driving — Part 2 — Are you Driving Under the Influence of Impaired Emotions?

February, 2004

While there is no one standard definition for aggressive driving, many psychologists see anger as the root cause of the problem. Regardless of the provocation or the circumstances related to problems on the road, it is ultinmately our emotional state, our stress levels and our thinking patterns that either cause us to drive aggressively or lead us to be the victims of others.

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Anger In the Workplace — Part 4 — Key Management Strategies

January, 2004

Dealing with angry employees is not only challenging for managers, but extremely expensive in terms of wasted employee time, increased turnover rates, mistakes and hihg levels of personal stress and illness. According to Workplace Violence, there are four levels of angr expression which need to be dealt with at the lowest level, to prevent escalation. Key management strategies include knwoing your resources, assertive communciation, setting limits and establishing consequences.

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