How to Manage Anger Using Nonviolent Communication

On two successive days I was involved in breaking up a fight between two different students. On day one I was furious on day two even though the nose was sore of course then it was on the first day I wasn't angry. The child whose elbow hit me in the nose on day one was a child that I was thinking of before this incident in very judgmental terms. Now on the second day I carried quite a different image into the situation of that child. That child I saw more as a pathetic creature than a spoiled brat and so when the elbow caught my nose I wasn’t angry. So these images happen very quickly and it can easily trick us into thinking that the stimulus