The Little Blue Book

Of course, blowing your top is of no help to anyone – least of all you. It’s unnecessary, is always counterproductive because it will often trigger a ‘push-back’, and is usually followed by hurt and regret. The outcome, then, when this happens at home, is increased stress in an already stressed household. It’s human, but it’s useless. It becomes a genie in the bottle thing. Once you let it out, it’s hard to get it back in without bruises to someone’s ego, some petulant back-and-forth exchanges, and a few dings and scratches on relationships (that will need to be patched-up later). So, how can you deal with frustrations and manage your anger when under such pressure? Thanks to a capacity for higher reasoning and decision- making around our behaviours, we learn to control and regulate the intensity of our emotional responses. 47 ADA Australia PostScript Section 1 Section 3 Section 2