As an employee, it is important for you to know how to relieve stress and anger at workplace.
Do you often get angry and stressed at work for different reasons?
Stress and anger sometimes can create conflict with your colleagues and manager, which might affect your work life, and you probably don’t want that right?
In this blog, I am going to talk about some common ways I deal with stress and anger while working. Read till the end, as I am going to discuss through example scenarios where I have faced this situation and managed my stress and anger… You don’t know which situation you might find yourself into.
Let’s dive in!
What Will You Learn?
Situations That Create Stress And Anger
In work there could be thousands of situations where you might get stressed and sometimes get angry.
First, you have to understand that stress and anger are common problems, and it will take some time to relieve stress and anger issues.
There are even therapies that deal with it!
So, you can understand that it is not a simple problem of you only. Lots of people go through it.
Some situations where you might be stressed –
- Sometimes a lot of work expectation is put on you, that is more than you can handle.
- Working with colleagues and managing relations could be stressful.
- Working continuously without break could stress you out.
- Fear of replacement in work and letting down your parent’s expectations.
Some situations could make you angry –
- Your seniors might pressure you for more work and might not acknowledge your hard work.
- Colleagues could ask you for help while you yourself are not done with your work.
- Working on most weekends.
- Not able to work on yourself and improve yourself because of too much work.
And many more…
But, stressing out or getting angry will get you into trouble if you let it control you.
Instead, you can follow some simple techniques every day to relieve stress and anger at work.
One of my favorites is – going for a walk!
Relieving Stress and Anger With Walk
We all know morning walk is very beneficial for our health. But it is not just helpful to your health, it is overall good for your mind. And the mind is the source of stress.
Even if you are not going for a morning walk, a simple walk can make your mind free from many things and sometimes create new ideas and thoughts that help you be more positive and cheerful.
I go for walk every day and it helps me stay active both in mind and body. It helped me to relieve stress and stay calm a lot.
Fortunately, I live closer to nature so when I go for walk, I change my focus from a stressful situation to a light natural environment where I can feel wind and, sunlight, it overall makes me feel good. It helps me stay positive and think about solution with clearer mind.
Let’s talk about another great way to relieve anger on the spot!
Breathing To Relieve Stress And Anger
Breathing is the most underrated skill you can master for controlling your anger. You will be shocked to know most of us don’t know how to breath properly!
Although there are a whole course on the topic of breathing, I am going to talk about a simple form of breathing that can help you reduce your anger.
Whenever I feel angry, I always inhale deeply from my nostrils and exhale slowly from my mouth. You can repeat it 3 times and can also do more times, until you feel your anger reduced.
Inhaling deeply fills your body with oxygen and helps in secreting oxytocin which has as anti-stress effects.
This simple technique has helped me stay calm even in situations where I completely loss myself. It will help you reduce your anger on the spot and also relieve stress easily.
Next method takes time but gives you a lot of advantage on a long run and has greater impact.
Mindfulness For Less Stress
Mindfulness could also be called the ability to focus.
Why am I bringing focus when talking about anger and stress? Well because focus can help you shift your attention from the situation that you think exist – to situation that actually exist and solve your problem.
In short, it makes you focus on solution rather than just looking at the problem and thinking about what-if scenarios.
Whether it is anger or stress, both of them are created not from the situation but from what we THINK of the situation.
If we can change what we THINK, then we can shift from being stressful and angry to being calm and productive.
Practicing mindfulness is pretty easy and this same method is followed among monks who practice mindfulness.
You have to incorporate mindfulness to your daily life.
Take any 3 tasks that you know you do every day. E.g. Brush, Bath, Dinner.
When you are performing those tasks, you have to make sure your whole attention is present in that task.
For example, when you are having dinner – smell the food, count how many times you are chewing, feel how the food tastes in your mouth, how it dissolves from solid state to liquid. Focus on every small detail.
This is going to be difficult at first as we are the most distracted generation ever. But, after some practice you will see you are able to do it and then you can easily tackle anger and stress issues at work by just shifting your focus.
Conclusion
Finally stress and anger are part of what everyone faces in work, but we can always grow and improve our own behavior if we want so.
Reducing stress and anger is not a one-day thing, whatever I discussed here will take some time for you to practice and be better at them.
Transforming your behaviors and habits will always take some time, there is no shortcut for it.
Take action, implement the methods, get better at them and reduce your stress and anger!
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