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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 anger actually is 7 Choosing your response 6 Equanimity and perspective 4 Making it stick 4 Growing empathy 4 The fear underneath anger 4 Anger, alcohol and the body 2 The moment before you snap 2 Cool the body first 2 Practising under provocation 1 What you are actually defending 1

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Understanding an idea is not the same as being changed by it. The explaining is soil preparation, and the crop comes later.

Somebody can follow the whole argument about respect and self-acceptance, agree warmly with all of it, and lose their temper the same way that…

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