Module eight, a personal plan. Anger is deeply personally effective anger management should take into consideration individual anger dynamic and tailor fit interventions to them. In this module we will discuss what hot buttons are, how to identify your personal hot buttons and how you can be benefited by keeping it personal anger long. Understanding hot buttons. hot buttons are triggers that make us react with anchor. They are not necessarily the real cause of our anger, but they can be the one that lights the fuse.

Triggers vary in the intensity of the anger reaction, and they can evoke and some can evoke uncontrollable rage while others merrily mild irritation hot buttons can be things that fall short of your expectations. block your goals, attack your self esteem, violate your values and or give you a feeling of loss or helplessness. A hot button is usually one that elicits an intense reaction and a person or the one that frequently sparks anger. These are hot buttons can be a something we observe, for example, in justices happening to other people, be something we think for an example thinking that we are always the target of a particular person's mockery. see something we feel for an example the feeling of being helpless. The something we do rescuing someone In a jam even if they don't deserve our help, ie any combination of the four identifying your hot buttons.

Hot buttons differ from person to person. Our personal histories influence what make us angry. Some triggers are caused by conditioning, modeling, and unresolved issues. A key to seeing if a hot button is the real cause of the anger or just a trigger is to see if your anger reaction is proportionate to what the situation calls for. If you're angrier than you should be perhaps there is an underlining emotional issue that needs to be surfaced. awareness of your hot buttons is already winning half the battle against anger.

If you know what can evoke your anger can watch out for them. A personal anger log. More often than not anger reactions appear in patterns. This means that there is a predictable structure that the anger reaction follows. This pattern is unique to each individual. Unfortunately, it is difficult to notice this pattern unless you take that third person point of view and study your anger reactions from a distance.

Here is where keeping a personal anger log would help. A personal anger log is a diary of angry actions, including symptoms, triggers, and coping styles. It is a way of increasing awareness of anger patterns unique to the individual. With awareness, one can better identify ways to prevent and cope with Anger when it comes to keeping a personal anger log is also a good way to blow off steam. You may treat it as a diary. Instead of a structured table as the one that will be presented later.

You can make an unstructured one to know your free floating ideas and fillings. Case Study in school, Jackson used to get in trouble on a regular basis due to the fact that he would get angry very often. It wasn't until college, he learned how to cope with the situation and started to understand his hot buttons. By identifying them and having a personal anger log. Jackson learns a trick needed to make people not push his hot buttons Knowing how to escape from a situation which could potentially like defuse and make you angry was an idea developed over some time by Jackson, which in turn, taught him a number of important things, such as identifying patterns in his anger, or the person he got angry with the most of the time. avoiding these situations led him to be more peaceful in life, free of the hassle of getting angry out of nothing.

After the completion of the documents associated with this module, please begin module nine