Meditation vs. prayer vs. other methods of coping

<p>Thanks for the terrific ideas.</p>

<p>Let me ask for help in a specific context: When a particular situation becomes so frustrating and stressful that you want to scream or cry or punch something, how do you cope? … I get this feeling mainly in two contexts: 1) when I’m driving and am lost [not common any more due to GPS], and 2) when I’m trying to handle technology issues - the printer won’t print, the program crashes, etc. and I can’t figure it out. For those acute moments, where dancing or taking a walk or coloring aren’t an option…that’s why I was thinking meditation or prayer…how to take a deep breath and draw a blanket of calm around me and not blame myself for being inept and powerless.</p>