How to Calm an Angry Person Down

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Brenda F. Dixon the owner of Life Help Now and I am here with Expert Village and today we are talking about how to overcome anger. I have given you some definitions to give you a clear understanding of it. I told you that it pushes people away and it also brings people closer to you because they feel like they want to help. One of the things that I have noticed in my practice with working with people with anger, if you are dealing with someone, if you will give a very gentle answer when someone is in your face speaking. Talking anger whether it is rage or just an everyday anger, if you will speak very gently to them, they will actually begin to calm down right in front of you. So one aspect of overcoming anger is to speak gently and it just begins to calm the room down, calms the person down and they begin to feel this composure that is in the room. No one has addressed what has caused the anger. No one has gotten into that. I am just talking about how to overcome it by being very gentle with the other person. "