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Self-control techniques, or, how not to lose your **** in traffic?

Hey. I'm a grown man, usually pretty much in control of my emotions, but when a car driver harasses me in traffic, I find that something just snaps and in a split second it I'm riding after them at top speed, ready to knock on their window and start a confrontation. This tactic never helps anything, and I have a feeling that one of these days it'll get me shot. People have guns around here. I'd like to stop doing that kind of thing, but it happens so fast. All the usual yoga-breathing relaxation techniques don't seem to work on that hair-trigger adrenaline response.

Anybody have experience with impulse-modification techniques that might work?
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