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The quality of our lives is based partly upon the quality of the questions we ask ourselves daily. If you are not inspired about your life or if you are not living the life you truly dream of, it may depend on the type of questions you are asking yourself.
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Have you ever wondered if anger management classes would be beneficial for you?
What is the first thought that comes to mind when someone says: “I am taking anger management classes?”.
Maybe you are thinking that this person is physically abusive, can’t control their outbursts, has been removed from their loved ones, big burly men with lots of tattoos and the list goes on.
Most will try to shut down their inner critic, I say learn how to work with it.
If you have ever had intrusive thoughts the first thing you want to do is to silence your inner voice. It can be overwhelming to constantly hear this little voice dictate negative thoughts.
I challenge you to re-frame your inner critic. In this post, I break down a few ways to do so with a couple simple exercises and awareness tricks. Remember that our brains have been evolutionarily hard wired to keep us safe for millions of years. Over the course of time we have developed a component in the nervous system called a checker.. This checker checks for danger and has three parts to it: Scan, Alert, and Motivate. You now have the SAM process.