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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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23 practicesTheme · Cool the body first
How long you have · Five minutes
Approach
If open awareness sounds like too much, put it plainly: look at the background instead of the thing in front of it. That is the entire instruction.
People who bounce off contemplative language will happily follow a physical direction about where to point their eyes. Say background, say the space…
Open gazing and long unfocused staring do not suit everyone. If things start to feel unreal or far away, stop and look at something you can name.
This caution is usually left out, and it should not be. Practices that are open, unguided and without an anchor are the ones most often followed by…
If techniques and explanations are not for you, carry a bottle of water and drink it down whenever you feel yourself going up. That is the whole method.
Some people want something to do, not something to understand, and that is a perfectly reasonable way to be. A bottle in your bag or your van is a…