Hypnosis for Anger management
Have you experienced road rage? Plane rage? Or maybe even art-gallery rage due to an overcrowded exhibit? These are only some of the forms that over-the-top anger can take in modern day life.
Excessive anger may have an obvious trigger or may occur out of the blue. And this kind of anger can ruin lives, including at work or in personal relationships.
Why Does Excessive Anger Happen?
Excessive anger is always the result of stress and unmet emotional needs. While the ability to get angry is natural, it’s also part of the ‘fight or flight’ survival mechanism. In hunter-gatherer times, this mechanism helped your ancestors survive in the face of a threat or attack.
When this mechanism kicks in, adrenaline spikes. Your pulse races. Your breathing becomes fast and shallow. Blood surges into the muscles of the legs and arms. The body becomes flooded with stress hormones. This gets you ready to take action. And once action has been taken, these feelings and effects subside.
However, today, there are far fewer occasions where the threat is real. When you get frustrated or feel angry with your boss, you may have to keep those feelings to yourself. Ultimately, this leaves the stress hormones circulating and your body has no obvious way to discharge these feelings.
You might become more and more wound up by little annoyances that build up over your day. Eventually, you reach a point and snap. For example, you may have a lower tolerance to small irritations when you’re feeling tired, sick, hungry, or are experiencing hormonal changes, chronic pain, or cravings.
Other times, you might have a tendency toward anger due to chronic low self-esteem. This may stem from abuse or neglect during your childhood. As an adult, you may feel like you’re never good enough. This results in you lashing out if you perceive that you’ve been slighted in any way.
Mild brain damage may further result in a loss of impulse control and aggression. Individuals on the autistic spectrum are frequently more prone to angry outbursts because of their difficulties and frustrations when trying to relate to other people.
Yet, more often, aggression is triggered by fear or a long-forgotten fear. For example, you may have been locked in a tiny and dark space under the stairs when you were a child. This served as punishment. But in adulthood, this may manifest as anger at your wife when she asks you to check the space under the stairs for something.
This happens due to the innate alarm system in the brain. The amygdala is in charge of your emotional memories. It forms the basis of a threat off of past experiences. And then, it alerts you when a threat is perceived. Because the stair cupboard experience was so traumatic and frightening, your amygdala triggers the alarm. You may experience terror all over again.
Often, you won’t be able to pinpoint why. And sometimes, this creates inexplicable anger outbursts. It stems from ‘pattern matching’ where your brain is matching the current situation to a time when anger was felt but suppressed. You end up lashing out.
Hypnosis for Anger Management Treatment
Fortunately, there are treatment options to help you deal with anger - whatever the cause may be. Simple and effective techniques can be used to resolve anger outbursts arising from incidents in the past, so that these cease to occur in the future.
Hypnosis for anger managment offers techniques and methods to help you calm yourself down quickly. This is essential since high emotional arousal makes people act without reason. In a hypnosis for anger management session we further encourage individuals to partake in an enjoyable physical activity to help discharge accumulated stress. They also help you examine and change your self-talk tactics, as well as look at situations from other people’s perspectives.
This approach also helps you explore what emotional needs are not being met in your life that may be contributing to your anger. For example, you may feel a lack of a sense of accomplishment or achievement. You might not feel connected to others which gives way to feelings of inferiority and hostility.
Experiencing uncontrollable or excessive anger always means that something is not working well in a person’s life. No one is naturally an ‘angry’ person; they are just, temporarily, overcome by anger. Yet, you can learn to let it go and not allow anger to control your life.