This guided relaxation exercise is designed to help you quickly and easily get through moments of anger.

We'll work together to deal with anger in a more healthy and productive way than you may have been handling it before.

If you're in the middle of the heat and you keep ruminating over and over about things that make you angry. I want you to stop right now

what you're doing and come back and let me help you. Just take a break from those thoughts and as you do breathe in deeply through your

nose if you can and then slowly exhale out your mouth.

Focus on my words.

Let's see if we can deal with anger

in a healthy productive way.

Anger is a normal and natural emotion

and there's nothing wrong with having feelings,

because you're human.

But you do, because you're human, have the power to choose and decide how to deal with

this emotion that you're experiencing.

Anger management doesn't mean holding anger in. It doesn't mean that you'll never feel angry.

Anger management is managing the responses that can arise within you when you're feeling angry.

You get to choose how you respond to those feelings.

And one of those, the best ways to do that is by taking a break and slowing down. So all you really need to do right

now is take a few minutes just to relax for you to help you feel relaxed and calm on the inside.

Remember, it feels good to relax.

After this little session is over,

you can proceed with your day, and you're free to react in any way that you choose

but relaxing for a moment now will really help you to react calmly and sensibly rather than acting just out of pure motion

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