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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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Anger, alcohol and the body Five minutes After a row Clear all

Theme · Anger, alcohol and the body

What anger actually is 19 Equanimity and perspective 13 Choosing your response 7 The fear underneath anger 7 Practising under provocation 3 The moment before you snap 3 Growing empathy 2 Cool the body first 2 What you are actually defending 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 1 When anger turns to harm 1 Making it stick 1 Righteous anger and perfectionism 1

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The strongest pull is not the anger by itself. It is anger plus being right, the lift in the body and the certainty of the moral high ground arriving together.

That pairing is genuinely hard to put down, because giving it up means giving up more than a mood. It means not being the wronged one for a while.…

Five minutesAnger, alcohol and the bodyMedical and treatmentQur’an 12:53