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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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Theme · What you are actually defending
The moment before you snap 10Cool the body first 8When anger turns to harm 6Choosing your response 5The fear underneath anger 5What anger actually is 4Equanimity and perspective 4Growing empathy 2Practising under provocation 2Making it stick 1What you are actually defending 1Righteous anger and perfectionism 1
How long you have · Five minutes
A minute 4Five minutes 1
When · Under stress
Any ordinary day 10After a row 2In a change 1Under stress 1Something good 1Coming and going 1

The aim is not to work out the answer. It is to keep moving while the answer is missing, and to find that the fear does not have to run the day.

When something is unsettled, your mind hands you one job after another: replay it, check it, decide what they really meant. You can put those down…

Five minutesWhat you are actually defendingMindfulnessQur’an 3:154