The biggest battles, we are fighting with ourselves. We are daily exposed to different situations which trigger bad emotions and dark thoughts within us. Are we often angry? The big challange is to turn rage and hate into positive energy. This will be the great and important victory.
Let's prepare plan for this "battle".
1. Build inner strength. Work daily to build this foundation stone.
2. Provocations are often unexpected. Fight them with an old medicine:
Take a deep breath. Retreat. Calm down.
3. Find a quick way to use immense energy of anger to do something good.
4. Accept the situation and find an intelligent way to express feelings.
5. Discuss unpleasant situation with partner or friends.
6. Ask ourselves what I've learned from this situation.
7. Write down the conclusion, made a small poster and stick it on the wall in the bedroom.
8. Repeat the lesson daily and incorporate it into life.
9. Read a good book and content with positive thoughts.
10. Listen to a music.
Some interesting thoughts about anger, worth to read:
Anger is implanted in us as a sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
COLERIDGE
When anger rushes unrestrain'd to action, Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way.
SAVAGE
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.
PLUTARCH
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.
SENECA
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
SHAKESPEARE
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
W.R. ALGER
Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed.
CLARENDON
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
JEFFERSON
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
CATO
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
HALIBURTON.
