what calms you down when your angry?

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1. When my angry what

2. Time. I basically don’t calm down until something new grabs my attention.

3. Going for a walk.

4. Good food or jerking off.

5. I take a few deep breathes and try and change my view of the situation that is making me angry. I ask myself, “is being angry going to make this better?” Usually the answer is no.

6. Music, podcast, e-book, walk, bike ride.

7. When she says *”the sun’s getting real low”*

8. Typically when someone uses the correct form of “you’re” really calms me down.

9. The understanding that it will always get worse and I’ll only get angrier unless I compose myself to focus on my goal.

10. I’ve really gotten into meditation and just mindfulness in general. Before I would let things fester and just let my anger engulf me but now I try to breath and focus on the “the situation happened, I can’t change it and I can’t go back so I just need to move forward and work with what I got”. It’s not easy but I find myself able to better handle those situations

11. My wife she is my happy place.

12. Headbanging to metal

13. A good workout can be cathartic.

14. I don’t really get angry, which explains my gray hair at 26, but I usually go by the 5 by 5 rule. If it doesn’t affect me in 5 years, don’t give it 5 minutes of my time now. If a game upsets me, I shut it off. If I’m in an argument I walk away.

15. P*ssy

16. A good joke

17. Time & solitude.

18. Some telling me to “calm down” “champ”

19. Music or something that gets my mind off of whatever pissed me off.

20. Stepping to the side when I get frustrated.

    Life is too short for me to spend time being pissed off about something just to stick around and let it continue to anger me. I step to the side and that starts calming me down.

21. Dog, weed

22. Here’s your angry

23. Tea

24. Weed

25. Nature and good music

26. Sleep. Even than I could wake up and remember what I’m angry about and just be frustrated all day.