Anger Management: Will It Work For Me?

Anger management skills are not rocket science and will work exceptionally well.  However, for them to work exceptionally well requires participants to be motivated to change.  Motivation to change is a vital requirement in learning any new skill, particularly for anger management. If your motivation is low or non-existent then it is very unlikely any new skills will be learned, no matter how good the information is or how well it is presented.

Gaining Skills in Anger Management

The skills taught in the Anger Management (Compassion) Program require motivation to learn the
new skills and, equally importantly, putting those skills into action in your daily life.  Knowledge without action is useless.

Additionally, recognising that there are behaviours that are not working well in your life and relationships and a desire to learn new and improved behaviours that do work well and will enhance all aspects of your life is the start to change.

Emotional Intelligence

One key skill taught in the Anger Management (Compassion) Program is emotional intelligence (EQ) which is a predictor of how well you will do in life, even more so than Intellectual Intelligence (IQ).

Smart emotions make you in charge of your emotions instead of being controlled by them.  You become an actor in your life instead of a reactor.  If you allow your emotions to be in control instead of you, they will ruin your life.  Smart emotions are a vital part of anger management.

Deciding How Your Day Will Be?

When you learn the skills of how to regulate your own emotions you can decide how your day is going to be in advance.  If you don't have the skills to regulate your emotions, you do not know how your day is going to be until you start to interact with your environment. 

If everything and everyone is how you want them to be, your day will be okay, however, if everything and other people are not how you want them to be, your day will be stressful and full of anger and resentment.

If anger and resentment are frequent or daily experiences for you then it is very likely that this will lead to severe health problems and relationship difficulties and often relationship failure.

Is Anger Creating Havoc For You

If problem anger and domestic violence is creating havoc in yours and your families life, you owe it to yourself and your family to check out The Compassionate Approach to anger management and domestic violence and see how others have successfully changed their behaviour so that they act in their long-term best interest and in the long-term best interest of their families.