It reminds me again why I don't spend a lot of time watching or reading the news. If people aren't shooting, stabbing or beating each other, they're in some way back stabbing in efforts to sabotage the reputations and opportunities of others. All's fair, you know. Now I see that Israel is striking back heavy against Palestine, and the talking heads on CNN are reporting on this never-ending circle of revenge attacks.
In one round-robin discussion, one bobble head finally said something that cut right through to the core of it. He quoted a leader of Hamas who said that peace is not possible because Isreal is an affront to God, and they must not exist. Well. That about sums it all up, doesn't it? Peace? Not in 100 lifetimes. It can only end badly for everyone involved. But this is no different than what goes on here and everywhere every day. It's just not as bloody.When disputes are created and continued because one side cannot see or appreciate the other person's side (point ofview)... when you see someone else as wrong, and you believe that they must suffer greatly in some way for their views or actions, then the only thing that can happen is hatred, fighting, injury, revenge, war. And that always ends badly.
Every day, hundreds and thousands of times in every city,town and burg around the world are examples of anger and rage out of control, taken to unnecessary levels. Granted, there are indeed, situations where anger and even rage are appropriate and understandable. But often, in a typical day, it's not. Built from lack of patience, unrealistic expectations, frustration builds quickly and... instantly, decisions are made that show the worst side of a person.
It reminds me of beauty pageants where contestants routinely say that during their "reign," they want to help world peace.Well, that is what I want, too. Someone asked me today if people will ever stop blowing each other up in wars and gang fights, etc. My answer was no, it won't... but that we can help to reduce it one person at a time on an individual level. And like the ripple effect of a single butterfly's wings flapping, the collective effect will be tremendous over time.'Anger Management Now!' is built on quickly changing your moment by moment thoughts, core beliefs and attitudes using the same kind of inner self talk each of us has going on in our heads all our waking and many of our sleeping hours... because when you change the discussion going on in your head, you can change your emotions and your behaviors with little or no effort at all. I've talked with people who have had such an addiction to anger patterns that their entire lives were basically defined by their anger. All gone or greatly diminished in a few weeks or months using Anger Management Now. Highly effective. Because through Lozanov's suggest opedic accelerated learning structure, it alters the ongoing conversation in your mind. This allows people to changeeven life-long belief systems and attitude patterns remarkably fast... even ones that not long before they'd"get up and fight for. "Suddenly not important to them. Some of the many areas of concentration in Anger Management Now are:
- Expressing dissatisfaction without becoming angry
- No more trying to change the unchangeable
- Being sensitive to the feelings of others
- Respecting cultural and religious differences of other
- Settling disputes without even raising your voice
- Seeing all your challenges as within your capabilities
- Disagreeing without becoming angry
- Always staying in control of your emotions
- Forgiving yourself and others for mistakes
- Channeling anger in positive and constructive ways
- Quickly letting go of negative, harmful emotions
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