Thank you for this wonderful website. You are obviously an extremely caring person. These lessons are carefully and caringly constructed and I have learned some already. Anger is an emotion, a reaction to a situation which may be rational (true) or not. Our habits may be formed from childhood and so it may not be possible to reverse the automatic emotional response we feel to certain circumstances. We can though change the behavior which follows!
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Principle 10
❖ Anger can be reasonable or unreasonable
We should also ask ourselves, "Is the intensity of my anger reasonable for the situation?"

Examine the situations you identified in your Journal Entry #5, The anger intensity scale, that triggered different intensities of anger. Is each one "reasonable" for the degree of anger? Then reexamine your definition of anger.

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