I was reading up this Wheel of Time series, and I found a very interesting way of containing one's anger. It is called the "River contained by the banks" technique. The book only tells of the name of the technique, and mentions that it is not uncommonly used by novices of the White Tower. I think the process of the technique would go something like this: To contain all your thoughts and give them a direction to flow, intead of anger letting your thoughts go haywire into many directions.
It is not a failed safe method though. The River cannot be contained by the banks when flood happens. I have come up with a few others, though more practical research needs to substantiate the hypothesis.
If one have a more controlled mind, then perhaps the "Mirror's true image" technique would work best for you, where you see yourself in the mirror, a calm and pure yourself, devoid of any anger or discomposure. This will calm your frayed nerves and cool your heated mind.
Or one may try the "Catterpillar transforms into butterfly" technique, where you see yourself immerse from the current umcomposed state into a calm, composed and elegant person, where anger transformed into forgiveness and warm hearted.
All these depends highly on the person's ability to remember to do these techniques before lashing out their anger: to remember to count for the count method to be successful, to remember the techniques of containment for the River to be contained, to remember the Magic Mirror to see your improved image, to remember to transform into a butterfly before the anger takes over you. Because all these have the technique have the fatal flaw of being forgotten at the most crucial moment: the heat of the moment when it is most required.
