Irritation is an unpleasant state, provoked by dissatisfaction, when any events - even the smallest and most insignificant ones - do not turn out the way you want them to. This condition, if not tried to control it or get rid of it altogether, can lead to aggression and anger.
A person becomes very nervous and irritable if too many emotions accumulate inside him. As water is poured out of an overflowing vessel, so from a person who does not allow his feelings to go outside, at a certain moment negative experiences break out, transforming into irritation and anger. Therefore, you need to learn to understand your emotions, live them, be aware, and then be sure to let go.
As in a situation with severe stress or with a tendency to increased anxiety, meditative techniques and exercises aimed at relaxation help to cope with irritation. Breathing practices, dynamic meditation, for example, in the form of dancing to certain music, help to overcome an unpleasant state, switch and distract.
A visit to a massage therapist or light, short self-massage are effective ways to combat excessive irritation. During the massage, both the body and the psyche are relaxed, disturbing thoughts and feelings go away, emotions are imperceptibly released. A simple self-massage of hands, neck and shoulders, face and head, legs before bed is especially useful.
Physical activity will help relieve irritation caused by the accumulation of tension and energy in the body. Running, punching a pear (or even pillows at home), vigorous exercise, swimming, push-ups or squats all help relieve stress, alter blood chemistry, reducing adrenaline and cortisol, thereby relieving irritability. In some cases, computer games help to release negative emotions that can cause severe aggression.
If irritation rolls over in an uncontrolled suffocating wave, you need to stretch yourself well, and then sit down, lean back in a chair or chair, lower your shoulders. Then inhale deeply several times, exhale slowly, trying to breathe not with the chest, but with the diaphragm, with the stomach.
Feeling constant tension and persistent irritation, it is worth turning to art therapy. Having settled down in a comfortable and calm environment, try to draw what irritation looks like. You need to give freedom to your imagination, not to try to create an outstanding work of art, but to put all your restless thoughts and unpleasant experiences into the drawing. When you don't feel like drawing at all, you can write in detail on paper about everything that infuriates, pisses you off and deprives you of inner harmony. Both drawing and writing will not only help release emotions and destroy unnecessary thoughts, they will force the brain to switch, and have a calming effect on the nervous system.
Trying to figure out how to cope with irritation in any particular situation, you need to try to take control of your own emotions and look at events with a "sober" look. Psychologists like to repeat that there are no good or bad events, there is only an emotional reaction to them. And what this reaction will be depends only on the person. It is necessary to try to evaluate events impartially, to look at them from a new perspective, drawing some experience even from some unpleasant moments.
It is always important to listen very carefully to your body. For example, if the irritation becomes too strong against the background of hunger or fatigue, you need to satisfy the needs of your body in the form of food and rest, sleep. When irritability increases because of a person, you need to try to distance yourself from him or persistently convince yourself not to react to his provocations and actions too emotionally.
