- Put a small pillow in a large pillow case, grab a fistful of the case at one end, and swing the pillow into the wall, onto your bed, against your desk, etc.
- Pile some pillows together and punch them.
- Dance around your room.
- While dancing around your room, kick and punch at the air.
- Play basketball and foul people as often as you like. Or play nice, but use your aggression to fuel your energy.
- Belt out Queen at the top of your lungs while driving.
- Build a special room, one that’s soundproof, but not with padded walls. You’ll need hard walls for what you’re about to do. Take dishes, or pieces of wooden furniture, or electronic equipment, and just smash away. The room can have a punching bag to pummel and a baseball bat to wield, but mainly you get to throw things and knock things over. And you can scream as loud as you want to because it’s soundproof! After you’re done in this magical room, someone else will come in and sweep everything up. Then the room can be used by the next person who needs to, shall we say, vent. That is my patented invention, copyright 2007.
things to do when you’re angry
April 17, 2008 by restingpress
So I’m assuming that you are angry at the moment? Sorry. Call me if you need to vent.
Isn’t this blog called “restingpress?”
You definitely need some rest. You should sleep in this weekend. I mean, really splurge. Don’t wake up until its lunch time.
Hmmm, I wish I would have had this list earlier in the week! It could have proven to be very helpful!
are you dumb or something??? you should NOT punch and hurt things when your angry!!! Doing that enforces the idea of hurting things when your angry, so when you are angry you turn violent and hurt people you don’t want to, because you have ill practiced anger management. If you punch and destroy things when your angry you get violent. never never never be aggressive when you are angry, be calm sit down, close your eyes and count to ten taking a breath every number, eating ice cream is good too because when you are angry you body is warmer than usual so ice cream cools you body down and is also very delicious.
please no one take this persons advise. it is not smart or rational behavior. No offense.
This has helped me so much because me and my ex-friend have been fighting non stop. He makes me soo angry and loves it and that makes it even worse. This helped me be calm. and better it dosent hurt anybody
Great list guys! I’m really impressed. This is the first list of things to do when angry that encourages expressing the anger safely on ‘things’ not people and NOT repressing it, bottling it up or pretending it isn’t there at all.
One step on from all the great ideas on your list is to do some of them when you’re not angry. Try laying into a punching bag (with some good yelling thrown in) once a week to release all the pent up anger from the week and see how calm you become. It’s hard to get triggered by little things if you don’t have a load of stored anger on board.
To find out more about safely expressing, not ‘managing’ anger, go to http://www.GoCoaching.com.au
thanks guys! im 13 years old and i have anger management unfortunately and this has helped me a great deal. if you have any other tips i would be glad to read them!
Some great tips there but I’m not sure about the last one – unless you had the money to build a soundproof room!