Impulsiveness &

anger
Unit 2: project
https://youtu.be/KoMxM9JbKdY
 Impulsiveness & anger
• If you are not being bullied, nobody makes you angry except yourself. If
you learn how to control your emotions, you will avoid anger and negative
emotions.
 One technique
• Count to ten before you speak, make a decision, or act (for example hit
someone). Do it, before you react, count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Think
about the conclusions of the act you are going to take (hit and get into
trouble, lose a friend, create a cold relationship with your family …).
 Dealing with anger
• Write down body signals that you feel inside as you begin to become angry,
things you notice about yourself:
 Increase in heart rate
 Increase in respiration
 Rise in body temperature
 Muscle tense (clenching hands or jaw, grinding teeth, moving around)
 Dealing with anger
• . Ask your best friend to tell you what you do or what you look like on the
outside when you begin to become angry.
 Tense facial muscles
 Flashed face
 intense eye contact
 Furrowed brow
 Reddened skin
 Dealing with anger
• Draw an outline of your body on a big piece of paper.
• On the inside of the outline, write down in red the things you notice about
yourself when beginning to become angry about the parts of your body where
you feel them.
• On the outside of the outline, on the parts of the body where you feel them,
write down in blue the things your family member or friend notices about you
when you begin to become angry.
• Now that you know the warning signs for anger on the inside and
outside of your body, be on the lookout for them, and act immediately
to calm yourself.
 Self-calming strategies
I. Box breathing is a simple relaxation technique that can help you ‘reset
your breath’ and return it to its normal rhythm.
https://youtu.be/tEmt1Znux58
II. Time-out: Never leap into the argument with an impulsive action
Research other self-calming strategies and select one
 Practice
• Select the one that suits you and present it to your friends
 Managing impulsiveness

• You are impulsive when you are not connected to yourself and to
the moment at hand.
• You speak and act without thinking.
• Discuss two times when each one of you has acted impulsively – done
something without thinking.
• Write them here:
1. ……….
2. ……….
 Managing impulsiveness
• Write down five times when you were acting impulsively as people were
watching.
1. ……
2. ……
3. ……
4. ……
5. ……
 Managing impulsiveness
• What do these actions have in common?
 Managing impulsiveness
• think about how both of you could have avoided these actions
• Come up with five things you could do to help you stop and think before
you act in the future.
 Production
• work on one-minute video in which you share the strategies you have
learned to control your feelings of anger and stop impulsiveness
• Use this link to create the video/ https://moviemaker.minitool.com/
 Winner
• The winners show their movies in the session of the school radio