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Anger
Almost nobody wants to be the person who says the thing they cannot take back. The window between the surge and the words is short and it can be widened. That is most of what this area is about, along with the fear or hurt that anger is usually protecting.
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2 practicesTheme · Cool the body first
How long you have · Five minutes
Approach · Core
Anger arrives with a rush of energy that feels strong and clear, and that is a large part of why it keeps coming back. The bill turns up hours later, long after the payment.
Worth saying plainly, because people assume they lose their temper against their own interests. In the moment it works: bigger, faster, less…
Your body will mobilise whether you like it or not. What happens next is trainable, and that part is genuinely yours.
After a lot of talk about how fast the alarm system is, the other half deserves saying plainly. People do learn to sit through a surge without acting…