Does yoga and meditation help with anger problems?

I think it could help you relax a lot. Which in turn will lower your stress level. I have EXTREMELY bad anger issues and taking awhile every day to just chill and not think about anything has helped me keep my cool :)

Thanks to both of you :) I know how it is Mackenzie, my parents have given up on getting me prescription chill pills, they don’t make any difference, if anything they made me angrier. I’ve had super bad anger problems since I was little, I’ll try meditation! :D

i took yoga last year as my fun class. I think it helped me with my frustration from my other classes because of all the homework and just everything. I think even just doing the breathing exercise helps because I still do it from time to time

Yes, Yoga and meditation will both help.

It helps to know the source of the anger problems. Are you impatient? Are you defensive? Do you have a chemical imbalance?

I found that I was both defensive and controlling. Controlling is not always negative. If you are in a room with ten people and three people pick on someone and you get into the fray to protect the person, you are being controlling. It took me a long time to figure out I didn’t need to protect the underdog every time. My protection of a younger sibling actually caused that sibling to grow up feeling inferior because he did not have to opportunity to exercise his own unique skills.

I used to believe I was fat and ugly. While I felt this way I was far more defensive and felt powerless. I lashed out quickly when I had a bad attitude toward myself.

Can you hear the I, in what I say? In all of my struggles with my anger issues I was neglecting me in some important way. Now that I treat me like I am special and pretty, I am less angry. I have to look in the mirror and smile sincerely at myself. I even have to pretend I’m looking at someone I like, such as a wonderful grandchild, sometimes. I can actually see the beauty spread across my face when I think of someone special.

Most likely you have been taught negative input and probably by example. A parent or a loved one is very hard on themselves. I have confidence in you changing that.

definitely! any kind of relaxation technique really