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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 practices

Equanimity and perspective Core Twenty minutes Clear all

Theme · Equanimity and perspective

What anger actually is 10 The fear underneath anger 5 When anger turns to harm 4 Righteous anger and perfectionism 4 The moment before you snap 3 Equanimity and perspective 2 Making it stick 2 Choosing your response 1 What you are actually defending 1 Cool the body first 1

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 5 Five minutes 14 Twenty minutes 2 Longer 4

Approach · Core

Core 2 Mindfulness 1

When

Any ordinary day 1 Under stress 1

The aim is not to become someone with no force in them. It is to get a harness on the force and point it at something worth doing.

Anger usually knows something true: this was unfair, this matters to me, this cannot carry on. Keep that part and drop the delivery. The energy can…

Twenty minutesEquanimity and perspectiveCoreQur’an 12:86

Look back at a fight you went out of your way to have and pride is often what was driving. Being right and being respected feel like needs in the moment, and they cost far more than they return.

This changes what there is to work on. Breathing exercises will not touch a fight you are having in order to prove you are somebody. The question…

Twenty minutesEquanimity and perspectiveCoreQur’an 28:88