The Best Online Anger Management Class by Emotion Expert, Dr. John
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In my work, one of the biggest complaints I hear is, “He (or she) always seems annoyed.”
I’ve helped thousands of adults, teens, men, women and executives manage their irritability, annoyance, and anger.
All it takes is learning tiny (sometimes effortless) shifts in your thinking, actions or physiology that can amount to huge long term results.
This 10-week anger management video series is VERY helpful because it shares all of these tiny, simple changes with you. These are tools I’ve spent the past 20 years testing, learning and separating out only the best ones for you. And these tools are based on science.
KEY: You are already making these simple changes on a regular basis. All of us are. We simply lack awareness of them. Without awareness, we don’t know where those changes are taking us!
The BIG QUESTION is this: Are these little, tiny changes taking you down a path of fulfillment, success and happiness OR are they taking you down a path of frustration and disappointment?
I began the Ph.D. program in ed. psychology at U.C. Berkeley so I could learn about the mind. In particular, I wanted to learn about the emotional side of the mind. I realized that the dumbest, most painful, most shameful things we do are done when our emotional mind is in charge of us.
What I quickly discovered was that there were nothing being taught about emotions in graduate programs in the late 1990’s. It was all about how we think – cognitive psychology. Emotions are very difficult to measure and research. After I graduated, I began to passionately pursue this area of emotions and the best scientifically-proven tools to manage them.
b) Turn UP the volume on positive emotions such as passion, engagement, contentment, relaxation, interest, awe, love and pride.
It’s not sufficient to merely focus on reducing anger. As anger becomes less frequent, something has to enter into the equation to take its place. Otherwise, anger returns as an old habit.
What takes the place of anger? Positive emotions and positive thoughts. Everything in the mind and in the brain works on homeostasis. A balance is required. We need a better balance in terms of negative emotions to positive emotions.
Since 1997, mastering the emotional mind has been my driving passion and purpose. It has made it fun and exciting to get up each morning.
One of the tiny shifts in thinking that will transform your life is simply to think of how much time you spend mired in negative emotions as compared to how much time you spend in positive emotions.
When I started this journey, I spent the vast majority of my time (upwards of 75%) irritated, annoyed, melancholy, anxious and emotionally unpredictable. I probably spent about 25% of my time feeling some degree of relaxation, distraction, contentment and engagement (passion and interest).
Now I spend almost 75% of my time in happiness, passion, excitement and enjoyment. I’m not sure I’m completely there yet, but I have come a long way from where I started.
And this simple shift in how I think of emotions (in terms of a balance between positive and negative) has produced massive results in my life. Here is some of the proof of my happiness and the success that followed on its heels…
I have numerous videos up on YouTube each teaching 1 little aspect of these powerful concepts. Several have over 22,000 hits.
My positive psychology blog, Shrunken Mind, has received three awards from three different organizations in the past year and has 50,000 visitors per month.
But it wasn’t always this way. Back in 2010, I was separated from my wife (now my ex-wife). I lived in dread of not being able to find more ways to bring in money. I stopped exercising. I ate anything I saw. I drank a bit too much. Some days I slept until 10 am. My productivity was way off. It was the lowest point of my life, and I was irritable and miserable. After hitting bottom, I began the long walk of tiny steps to regain control of my life.
Teaching Advanced Tools for the Mind (ATM) to clients via the web sidesteps the typical feelings of shame, guilt and embarrassment that most people feel walking into a therapist’s office. My purpose here is to shine a light on an emotion that has been misunderstood forever – anger.
In fact, my belief is that you have multiple strengths that you are likely overlooking. These strengths can be tapped to help you overcome your challenges with anger. Part of this course will help you identify your strengths and use them in new ways. I also know that if you are here as a parent or a spouse, that you deeply love your family. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be here.
NONE of this would have happened if I had not made the conscious decision to figure out my own emotions and put proven tools into play to make tiny shifts in thinking. Over time, these tiny steps result in powerful changes. The changes make us happier and less angry.
Guess what? Success follows happiness. Not the other way around. As I’ve learned to be happier, people are seeking me out. It’s simple: Get happier and the opportunities follow.
Why? People LIKE to be around upbeat, positive, happy, optimistic people. So happy people tend to have more friends. More friends means more access to knowledge. Ultimately, it means that happier people are… Read more…
