What Can Be Done for Type A’s:
Fortunately, like traits such as optimism or assertiveness, Type A characteristics can be altered. The following are ways to soften Type A characteristics in yourself, if you possesss them:
Change Your Work Life:
Altering certain factors in your work life to make your job less stressful, more rewarding, and less demanding.
Change Thought Patterns:
With practice, you can alter your thinking patterns to more positive ones, you develop more trust in yourself and in thoses around you, and can soften your type a tendencies.
Fake It Till You Make It:
Sometimes you can ‘act’ your way into new habits. Even if you don’t always feel clam and serene, if you make a conscious choice to try to slow yourself down and be more patient with people, that behavior will most likely become more of a habit and begin to come more easily to you. (Note: it’s not recommended that you become completely detached from awareness of your feelings, or that you keep them bottled up until you eventually explode, but if you focus on making some changes in your behavior in conjunction with some of the following emotion-oriented strategies, you should make more progress, more quickly.)
Start Journaling:
The practice of keeping a journal has many proven benefits for your stress level and overall health. It can also be a helpful practice in softening Type A characteristics, especially if done right. The following are the best ways to use your journal as an instrument of change:
o Keep a record of how many times you lose your temper in a day, treat people rudely, or feel overwhelmed by frustration. Becoming more aware of your tendencies and what triggers reactions in you can be a valuable step in changing your patterns.
o Write about your feelings. This helps you to process them, and takes some of the intensity from them, so you’re less overwhelmed by strong emotions.
o Write about solutions. Solving your problems on paper (rather than obsessing about them in your head) can help you to feel less overwhelmed by them. You can also look back through your journal to remember old ideas on solving new problems.
Face Your Fears:
This may sound crazy, but a good way to work past Type A tendencies is to give yourself an extra dose of what frustrates you in order to show yourself that it’s not so bad. For example, The Doctors Book of Home Remedies II recommends that you pick long lines in the grocery store, just to show yourself that you can survive the frustration of waiting in line for a few extra minutes. (Or, perhaps the threat of having to wait in a longer line will force your subconscious mind to be more patient in one of the shorter lines.)
Make It A Game:
When you’re frustrated on the road, About’s mental health expert recommends that you make a game out of it and “count idiots”. The same can be done for life in general. If you see how many frustrating things you can playfully tally, for example, you’ll almost look forward to people’s quirks.
Breathing Exercises:
The next time you’re about to scream, why not take the deep breath and, instead, just breathe it out? Yes, when you feel you’re about to explode, a few deep, slow breaths can do wonders! Learn these breathing exercises and you’ll have a stress reliever you can use anywhere!
Love Your Pets:
Pets have many stress management and health benefits, and can help provide you with the extra calm you need. Walking a dog can be relaxing and social, get you out into nature (or at least out of the office), and gets you exercise as well! Caring for an animal and receiving its unconditional love can get you in touch with the best parts of your own humanity. Even watching aquarium fish has been known to have a measurable affect on blood pressure! Learn more about pets and stress here.
Gardening:
Getting out into the sunshine, beautifying your yard, and getting back in touch with nature are some of the benefits of gardening. It all adds up to some great stress relief. This tension taming tool can reduce overall stress and learn to take it easy a little more, softening your Type A tendencies.
Is your boss or spouse a Type A personality?
You have to deal with by practicing assertiveness and healthy conflict resolution techniques. This way you can maintain healthier boundaries and keep yourself from being overrun by this person who exhibits strong Type A personality characteristics.
the cluster type of grouping the personality characteristics is as follows:_
Fortunately, like traits such as optimism or assertiveness, Type A characteristics can be altered. The following are ways to soften Type A characteristics in yourself, if you possesss them:
Change Your Work Life:
Altering certain factors in your work life to make your job less stressful, more rewarding, and less demanding.
Change Thought Patterns:
With practice, you can alter your thinking patterns to more positive ones, you develop more trust in yourself and in thoses around you, and can soften your type a tendencies.
Fake It Till You Make It:
Sometimes you can ‘act’ your way into new habits. Even if you don’t always feel clam and serene, if you make a conscious choice to try to slow yourself down and be more patient with people, that behavior will most likely become more of a habit and begin to come more easily to you. (Note: it’s not recommended that you become completely detached from awareness of your feelings, or that you keep them bottled up until you eventually explode, but if you focus on making some changes in your behavior in conjunction with some of the following emotion-oriented strategies, you should make more progress, more quickly.)
Start Journaling:
The practice of keeping a journal has many proven benefits for your stress level and overall health. It can also be a helpful practice in softening Type A characteristics, especially if done right. The following are the best ways to use your journal as an instrument of change:
o Keep a record of how many times you lose your temper in a day, treat people rudely, or feel overwhelmed by frustration. Becoming more aware of your tendencies and what triggers reactions in you can be a valuable step in changing your patterns.
o Write about your feelings. This helps you to process them, and takes some of the intensity from them, so you’re less overwhelmed by strong emotions.
o Write about solutions. Solving your problems on paper (rather than obsessing about them in your head) can help you to feel less overwhelmed by them. You can also look back through your journal to remember old ideas on solving new problems.
Face Your Fears:
This may sound crazy, but a good way to work past Type A tendencies is to give yourself an extra dose of what frustrates you in order to show yourself that it’s not so bad. For example, The Doctors Book of Home Remedies II recommends that you pick long lines in the grocery store, just to show yourself that you can survive the frustration of waiting in line for a few extra minutes. (Or, perhaps the threat of having to wait in a longer line will force your subconscious mind to be more patient in one of the shorter lines.)
Make It A Game:
When you’re frustrated on the road, About’s mental health expert recommends that you make a game out of it and “count idiots”. The same can be done for life in general. If you see how many frustrating things you can playfully tally, for example, you’ll almost look forward to people’s quirks.
Breathing Exercises:
The next time you’re about to scream, why not take the deep breath and, instead, just breathe it out? Yes, when you feel you’re about to explode, a few deep, slow breaths can do wonders! Learn these breathing exercises and you’ll have a stress reliever you can use anywhere!
Love Your Pets:
Pets have many stress management and health benefits, and can help provide you with the extra calm you need. Walking a dog can be relaxing and social, get you out into nature (or at least out of the office), and gets you exercise as well! Caring for an animal and receiving its unconditional love can get you in touch with the best parts of your own humanity. Even watching aquarium fish has been known to have a measurable affect on blood pressure! Learn more about pets and stress here.
Gardening:
Getting out into the sunshine, beautifying your yard, and getting back in touch with nature are some of the benefits of gardening. It all adds up to some great stress relief. This tension taming tool can reduce overall stress and learn to take it easy a little more, softening your Type A tendencies.
Is your boss or spouse a Type A personality?
You have to deal with by practicing assertiveness and healthy conflict resolution techniques. This way you can maintain healthier boundaries and keep yourself from being overrun by this person who exhibits strong Type A personality characteristics.
the cluster type of grouping the personality characteristics is as follows:_
Cluster A: Includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality
disorders. People with these disorders often seem odd or eccentric, with
unusual behavior ranging from distrust and suspiciousness to social
detachment.
Cluster B: Includes histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial, and borderline
personality disorders. Individuals with these disorders have in common a
tendency to be dramatic, emotional, and erratic. Their impulsive behavior,
often involving antisocial activities, is more colorful, more forceful, and more
likely to bring them into contact with mental health or legal authorities than
the behaviors characterizing disorders in the first cluster.
Cluster C: Includes avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive
personality disorders. In contrast to the other clusters, anxiety and
fearfulness are often part of these disorders, making it difficult in some
cases to distinguish them from anxiety-based disorders. People with these
disorders, because of their anxieties, are more likely to seek help.
Personality Disorder Characteristics
CLUSTER A
Paranoid Suspiciousness and mistrust of others; tendency to see
self as blameless; on guard for perceived attacks by
others
Schizoid Impaired social relationships; inability and lack of desire
to form attachments to others
Schizotypal Peculiar thought patterns; oddities of perception and
speech that interfere with communication and social
interaction
CLUSTER B
Histrionic Self-dramatization; overconcern with attractiveness;
tendency to irritability and temper outbursts if attention
seeking is frustrated
Narcissistic Grandiosity; preoccupation with receiving attention; selfpromoting;
lack of empathy
Antisocial Lack of moral or ethical development; inability to follow
approved models of behavior; deceitfulness; shameless
manipulation of others; history of conduct problems as a
child
Borderline Impulsiveness, inappropriate anger; drastic mood shifts;
chronic feelings of boredom; attempts at self-mutilation
or suicide
CLUSTER C
Avoidant Hypersensitivity to rejection or social derogation;
shyness; insecurity in social interaction and initiating
relationships
Dependent Difficulty in separating in relationships; discomfort at
being alone; subordination of needs in order to keep others
involved in a relationship; indecisiveness
Obsessive-compulsive Excessive concern with order, rules, and trivial
details; perfectionistic; lack of expressiveness and warmth;
difficulty in relaxing and having fun
Provisional Categories
Passive-aggressive Negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to adequate
performance expressed through indirect means, such as
complaining, being sullen and argumentative, expressing
envy and resentment toward those who are more
fortunate
Depressive Pervasive depressive cognitions. Persistent unhappiness or
dejection. Feeling of inadequacy, guilt, and self-criticism
IN A NUTSHELL REMOVE THE EMOTIONS PART OF THE ISSUES IN LIFE....WHETHER AT HOME OR OFFICE OR IN SOCIETY OR SOCIAL GATHERINGS....YOU WILL BE STRESS FREE...LOOK AT ONLY THE LOGICAL AND REALITY PART OF THE ISSUES....
i.e in any issue look at 'what is to be done now and later....that is
all...only learn the lessons from the past...do not look at the
losses...look at only the gains...do not get anxiety about future...it
will be a pleasant one...live the present...living for tomorrow....and
tomorrow again living for the next tomorrow....is a waste....what
is the point in making money from 20 to 45 by spoiling health and
spending it to remain alive for few more years in isolation!
THERE
IS NOTHING WORTH ACHIEVING UNDER THE SKY BY SPOILING THE HEALTH AND
HAPPINESS...THE INDIVIDUAL PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNTS OF PEOPLE MAY BE
DIFFERENT...BUT THE OVERALL BALANCE SHEET OF HAPPINESS IN LIFE REMAINS
THE SAME FOR EVERY ONE!
Bye
rams
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