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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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3 practicesHow long you have · Five minutes
Approach
This goes the way learning a bicycle went. You could not, then you could but only with all of your attention, then one day you rode without thinking about it. The middle bit is the ugly bit.
In that middle phase the skill works but it costs you everything to use, and it looks clumsy from the outside. That is where most people decide it is…
If you swallow it all day at work and it comes out at home, home is not where the problem is. It is just the safest place to put it down.
Anger lands where retaliation costs least, which usually means on the people who will forgive you. Two things help more than trying to be calmer at…
Giving up certainty is a loss, and it is fair to treat it as one. People do grieve the version of themselves who knew exactly what was going on.
The same piece of work gets called several things: getting used to uncertainty in small doses, learning to sit with confusion, or grieving the loss…