Article: 5 Steps To Responding Rather Than Reacting To Anger
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5 Steps To Responding Rather Than Reacting To Anger
Think of your brain as a juke box where most of your records ? your reactions to different situations ? were recorded well before your reached adolescence. Then, as life goes on and every time someone pushes your button, you automatically play the record that fits each situation.
Take for instance, being bitten by a big, black dog at age 3. As a normal child your brain would make a record called ?become afraid when you see a big, black dog.?
Forward to age 28. you have forgotten the dog incident at age 3. You are walking down the street and pass a dog that is big ? and you guessed it ? black. You automatically feel anxiety and apprehension and you want to avoid it, even though it is behind a gate and cannot harm you now. You find yourself thinking things like,...
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