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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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What you are actually defending A minute Any ordinary day Clear all

Theme · What you are actually defending

The moment before you snap 16 Choosing your response 14 Growing empathy 13 Making it stick 9 What anger actually is 9 Cool the body first 8 The fear underneath anger 5 Equanimity and perspective 5 Practising under provocation 4 What you are actually defending 2 Anger, alcohol and the body 1

How long you have · A minute

A minute 2 Five minutes 10 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 1

Approach

Mindfulness 1 Core 1

When · Any ordinary day

Under stress 4 Any ordinary day 2

Respect comes from the Latin for looking, with the prefix meaning again. It is literally the second look, the head that turns as somebody important walks past.

Knowing that does something useful. A word that felt close to sacred turns into a plain social behaviour you can examine: who gets looked at twice,…

A minuteWhat you are actually defendingCoreQur’an 31:18

Your mind is always slightly behind what is happening. Reality moves and you are the response, which leaves you permanently a step late and permanently not quite sure.

Put that way, uncertainty is not a flaw in your thinking, it is the position you are standing in. You are flying into the next moment without having…

A minuteWhat you are actually defendingMindfulnessQur’an 16:23