3. Meditation
Meditating can be a great way to bring your anger under control. Simple meditation means practicing taking control of your own thoughts and being able to quieten them – which in turn can help you to feel calmer and more relaxed. Meditation also involves a large amount of visualization, and if you can visualize yourself in a peaceful setting and really make it feel real then this can often be enough to help you calm down and feel more peaceful too.
4. Hypnosis
Hypnotherapy is basically a technique that experienced practitioners can use to plant suggestions in our unconscious mind so that they act on us on an unconscious level. To accomplish this they will use scripts that walk us into a more relaxed state of mind and get us to drop our defences so that our thoughts and behaviours can be modified.
5. Biofeedback
Biofeedback means using something like a heartrate monitor to get feedback regarding your physiological arousal and other physical features. This then allows us to see what it is precisely that’s getting us worked up, and which techniques are working to calm us back down. Ultimately the goal is to become innately more aware of our own psychic state and to be able to control it without the use of the monitor.
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