How Can I Communicate? Anger Management Skills Part Five

I have written on previous posts on anger management techniques and I have addressed different topics. I addressed understanding the cues and triggers of anger, the positives and the negative to anger, a secret to anger(one of them being expectations), and I talked about calming down techniques.
So now that you are calmed down,don’t escalate it any further. You have taken your break from it and feel calm? The next anger management technique is that you both must agree to work it out. You show willingness to communicate by facing each other, preferable sitting down and looking eye-to-eye to each other and saying “Yes, let’s work this out.” or” Let’s talk about it.” Then you try to hear each person’s point-of-view. It is best at this time to use ‘ I-statements’.

How is the Individuation Process Related to Self Esteem Activities?

First of all, what is individuation? Individuation is a process of separation from the identities that others have told you about who you are. This process is a self esteem activity because it increases your self worth and self esteem by claiming your uniqueness and your values. The more you know yourself and your unique voice and qualities, the more able you are to know your expertices and your limits and the better to navigate in your world. There are different individuation processes…

Are You Trying To Hide Your Crabbiness? Nonverbal Communication

Trying to hide your feelings is very difficult. The truth is, we are always expressing through Nonverbal communication. Some people can read nonverbal communication more easily than others. Another word for crabbiness is irritability. You are not feeling satisfied or want things to be different. Nonverbal communication of impatience and irritability can be shown in many ways…

Why Do People Lie? The Importance of Communication

We’ve all lied at sometime. We’ve all been lied to. We even lie to ourselves? We believe in being honest, so…why do people lie? The importance of communication can shed some light on this situation. As teenagers, we probably have all lied to our parents at some point. We lie to get our own way, but behind that is that we didn’t want to get a no or have our parents angry or upset with us. As adults, we may lie to our personal and primary relationships. We lie in two ways:

How Can I Calm Down? Anger Management Techniques Part Four

You feel yourself getting angry or you’ve just blown up at someone, now what do you do?What needs to happen is for you to calm down. Remember people respond to your emotions and not to your words, so it’s best to communicate from a calm place. So basically calming down is calming your mind down. Anger management techniques help with this. If you’ve just blown up and get very angry, research show that it takes 20 to 30 minutes for your brain to return to normal. You want your brain to be calmer so you can find win-win solutions. And also to be able to do any repair work in the relationship.

What Are Some More Self Esteem Activities?

Four Self esteem activities to increase your feelings of self worth and self-confidence.

What Does Nonverbal Communication Tell You?

Have you ever sat in the room and felt uncomfortable? Have you ever had a conversation with someone who was talking reasonably and made sense but you didn’t believe them? Well you were responding to nonverbal communication.
Most of our communication is nonverbal communication. It is said only about 7 -10% of our communication are the words that we speak. The rest of our communication is non-verbal communication. There are very many ways we communicate non verbally.

What Are Some Self-Esteem Activities?

Do you ever feel like everyone seems to take advantage of you? They seem to ‘take’ but rarely ‘give’ back to you when you need help? It feels like a one way street! If you answered yes, then you need to build your self esteem up. You need some Self esteem activities.

How Our Anger Management Techniques Relate to Signs of Depression Part 3

I want to tell you about a secret today, a secret behind anger.

We all like secrets, I know I do, especially good ones that help me!

What’s the real secret behind anger? That’s what I want to talk about today. The TOP secret for anger management techniques.

The Importance of Communication and How Can I Improve My Communication?

So, we need to be able to talk to others about what’s going on with us, and to ask for what we want, and to let people know when they effect our feelings.

And this can be scary. It is sometimes easier to get mad at someone for not at least guessing what we want rather than be vulnerable and expose ourselves and later be rejected, possibly. But this creates intimacy, when tell our truth.

And so one of the most important skills is to communicate in a way that does not accuse or blame the other person.

Here are some important points to effective communication:

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