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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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4 practicesHow long you have · A minute
Approach · Mindfulness
When · After a row
If you notice a hard locked stare, in yourself or in the room, look away. Empty space is the safest thing to look at, because it says nothing back.
Two people staring each other down are feeding one another, and each second of it raises both of them. Breaking that needs no words, which matters,…
You do not actually know what they are about to say, or why they did it. Swapping the finished sentence in your head for help me understand costs nothing and changes the whole exchange.
Finishing people's sentences, deciding in advance what they meant, hearing the insult before it has been made: all of it feels like insight and most…
If you held back at four o'clock and then snapped at seven, the holding back still happened. A later slip does not reach backwards and cancel it.
All or nothing scoring is the quickest route from one lapse to giving the whole thing up: I lost it, so none of it was working, so why bother. Count…
There was a moment when the urge came up and you watched it instead of acting. Notice that, mark the date if you can, because that is your proof it is possible.
People chasing this skill often think they have never managed it, when in fact they did it last Thursday in a car park and never counted it. Name the…