Art and Creative Visualization As Forms of Anger Management

What if people could use their creative expressions as a means of healing from past traumas and anger management programs. Art just for the fun of it is not what we are discussing though.

Art as a simple pleasure might keep you from losing your mind, but art as anger management programs is something else. It is a more active way to express your anger through what you create or do. Countless examples of anger management programs or other strong emotions can be found from the master artists, painters, musicians, and dancers, but the rest of us can focus our anger and thereby heal, as well. You don't have to master an Art to use art as a means of working through your anger.

Kids and others not so young really benefit from anger management programs. They may imagine a descriptive picture with their angry emotions, or they may physically create and then intensely destroy some art work.

It is best to let your anger management programs flow as you create paintings, for example. One victim of sexual molestation may design abstract drawings dominated in black tones. Another may create a jumble of body parts expressing the confusion and disconnectedness he feels.

One of my clients years ago was very upset at a former counselor who used to eat potato chips during their sessions and had even slipped into a nap during a counseling appointment with the client on one occasion. To express anger management programs she drew a caricature of her former therapist lounging on the couch with cookie crumbs all over her. Her eyes were heavily lidded, and a little balloon above her head read "Want a cookie?"

My client drew herself on the other couch as a nondescript naked body with a huge knife sticking out of her guts and blood pooling on the floor below her. She was very careful to include the plaque that hung ironically on her former counselor's wall: it read "It's Never Too Late To Have A Happy Childhood." In this one drawing the client was able to express her desperate need for help and her anger management programs at feeling neglected by the therapist.

To start your anger work through artistic expression, let your creativity go. Who knows, perhaps you will create some items worth selling someday. A couple of professional artists with whom I have worked with over the years have changed their style of artistic expression after getting into anger management programs. They often feel even more connected to their pieces because of the intense level of self expression.

Some other modes of artistic expression you may want to explore are those of expressive dance, creative movement, and anger management programs. This could even be in the form of a creative work-out routine. For example, as a survivor of rape or sexual abuse you may create a special work-out routine as one of my clients did. There were three movements to her routine. The first was a straight, strong punch forward at eye level, imagining that she was punching her attacker in the face. The second movement was a swift, powerful kick upward, imagining that she was kicking the attacker in his private parts.

The third movement brought her arm up over her head, then down in front in a swift swinging motion where her clenched fist met her open palm like a hammer, finally symbolizing her crushing the attacker's private parts between an anvil and a large, metal hammer. She repeated these movements in sequence for 15 to 20 minutes at a time several times a week, or whenever she felt the victim mentality taking hold of her again.

Any number of art activities or creative visualizations can serve as anger management programs for you. Relax and let yourself go. Keep trying until you find one that works, or many! What is important is that you do find effective ways to do your Anger Work so that you can live a more peaceful, joyful life.

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