Day 35

Feel Angry? Write Down Your Feelings and Shred Them

https://eikaiwa.dmm.com/app/daily-news/article/feel-angry-write-down-your-feelings-and-shred-them/1_niMvhYEe6mdQOWZbj3Ig

Vocabulary

• cope

• insulting

• dispose

• scrunch

• transparent

Questions

1. The study involved 100 participants.

2. Some were told to scrunch them up and throw them in the garbage. Others were told to put their paper in a shredder. The rest put their paper either in a transparent box or in a transparent folder on their desk.

3. The group of participants who experienced lower levels of anger were those who threw away or shredded their papers.

Discussion

1. I thought that this method is a good way to deal with my anger. When I feel angry I will try the same techniques.

2. Yes I have done that before. About three months ago I wrote down the things I disliked about my company on paper. After that I felt a little less angry and decided to change my job.

3. Yes. I will try it tomorrow.

4. I accept convincing negative feedback. However I get angry at the one I don’t agree with.

5. Yes, but none of them have worked.

Further Discussion

1. I usually eat chocolate to calm down my anger. It makes me gain so much weight.

2. I feel better when I go to the hot springs. I take a day off and stay there from morning to night, then I sleep and read DragonBall mangas.

3. I always talk to my wife and I ask her for advice. She is very used to calming down my anger.

4. That is Nira-chan. He is quick to show his face whenever he is angry or having fun. He forgot to turn off his microphone during an online meeting and rushed out into violent language about his boss.

5. This is correct. Japanese people have forgotten how to be angry.