Your personal philosophies when dealing with anger/stress - General

I'd like to talk about how we deal with our anger/stress in our lives. Here's the way it is for me personally: A while back I came to a realization about things like getting pissed off, etc.: It wasn't worth it. Shit happens, man. It's really not worth getting stressed over a lot of things that we normally get angry at in life. It's all first-world problems that don't make that much of an impact. Basically, if something bad happens, I go, "Okay, mistakes were made. Shit happened. I accept that it's my fault that this happened, let's not dwell on it. Move right along." I just feel like if you hold onto things like grudges and shit like that it only just makes you feel sick inside for a long period of time. Besides, if you're mad at someone, chances are they don't even care you're mad. Sometimes people want to rile you up and troll you, and of course many people's reactions would be to rant and scream. But I realized you only end up making a fool of yourself. Just look at all these crazy reactions you find online: people end up sharing the breakdown and get more people to laugh about them and it just gets worse. I kind of came to this philosophy after that song about me came out. I could have acted out of anger and shouted from here to china and back, but what would it have accomplished? I would have just made the situation even worse. So, I dealt with it calmly and maturely. I accept that I said some stupid things before and acted in such a way, that to be honest were worthy of ridicule. Mea culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa. Let's move on. It saddens me when people continue to hold on to a person's negative actions for so long and aren't willing to forgive and forget. I think a lot of problems in the world would be resolved better if we could suck up our pride and just say, "It's my fault, can you forgive me?" tl;dr: I ain't even mad. At anything. Because being angry sucks. Just chill, dudes. Anyways, that's my two cents. Anybody else got a life philosophy they want to talk about.

I punch somebody in the face to calm myself down.

holy shit Ryu-Gi's back

[QUOTE=JesterUK;35994771]holy shit Ryu-Gi's back[/QUOTE] I've been back for like a month now. Anyways, do you have something you want to add to the discussion?

I masturbate furiously to Sussan Coffey

I release the hounds. And then I go into passive aggressive mode.

I go on a walk while listening to music.

I force myself to take a huge shit

I write, and listen to music

Write down my thoughts on a piece of paper, spiced with tons of swear-words, and then burn it over the sink. Feels good man, like you're roasting your feelings to crisp.

[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i4wU9MEmSn8/TWGhCdYWVXI/AAAAAAAAAfA/5hw5iFbx0X8/s1600/serenitynow.png[/img] "Serenity now!"

I imagine myself making confessions over the grand canyon

I work better under stress anyway. My philosophy is if you've done everything you could to fix the issue, then why continue to worry? Either work on the issue until it's resolved, or wait until you're able to work on the issue until it's resolved.

"this too shall pass" no matter what you're dealing with even when you're happy so you gotta cherish every happy moment and at the same time know that no matter how bad or difficult things are you gotta, like, keep on swimman' and next thing you know it's all better, yaknow. [editline]18th May 2012[/editline] also when dealing with ignorant/stupid/dense people who make you mad, but aren't hurting anyone or just people whose opinion differs from yours "live and let live" [editline]18th May 2012[/editline] then other times I just say "YOLO" when I'm about to do stupid shit lol

Scream in a pillow.

write in a journal it's a very interesting read, and I found the perfect place to keep it.

I sometimes think about the philosophy's of Stoicism and Taoism. Either that or watch Scrubs.

I rarely get mad. When I do, I listen to calm music. When I'm stressed, I usually ignore it, thinking that it'll all sort itself out.

I just take a step back to look at everything and try and put the stress and anger aside. I don't see much of a point to stay angry at people and if one of my days are just filled with stress I try to keep in mind that the day will end and a new one will start. I don't even think I could ever stay angry at someone for long.

Workout/run, great stress reliever.

There's always the future, it can always get better. Something is always better than nothing.

I try to appreciate every moment, including the tragic/angry/depressing ones. Living is living and experiences are experiences.

Goosfraba...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Z-w9-7aHg[/media] [quote] I didn't question I didn't know, As far as I'd seen life was endless, When I realised I had to let go, We are mere mortals, As to the rest, It's not eternal, imperishable, While on the move, It's not eternal, interminable, Progress is the clue, I though IBM was born with the world, The US flag would float forever, The cold opponent did pack away, The capital will have to follow, It's not eternal, imperishable, Oh yes it will go, It's not eternal, imperishable, The dinosaur law, Look at the symbols, they are alive, They move evolve and then they die. [/quote] most of my personal philosophies are stolen from lyricists, makes it pretty easy

Regular meditation can help as once you become attuned you can slip in and out of the meditative state at will to a degree which helps a lot with viewing situations from different angles and such. Also, switching from coffee to Yerba Mate has calmed me down no end - that might just be me, though.

I know it's not the most creative way, but I literally punch anything that's in arms reach if I get stressed.

I take the axe from our garage and just fucking hammer shit in the forest behind my house.

I scream at my mom somehow it's always her fault

i try to be stoic, but it feels like i boil up my feelings up until some very unfitting moment where ill turn incredible angry

Foxes, thousands of them.