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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 60Equanimity and perspective 44The moment before you snap 39Choosing your response 35The fear underneath anger 29Practising under provocation 28Cool the body first 23What you are actually defending 16Growing empathy 14Making it stick 12Righteous anger and perfectionism 11When anger turns to harm 9Anger, alcohol and the body 2
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A minute 227Five minutes 322Twenty minutes 59Longer 37
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Core 171Mindfulness 78CBT 38Body based 22Medical and treatment 7Trauma informed 4Gottman 2
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Any ordinary day 204After a row 62Under stress 49In a change 3Coming and going 2When apart 1Something good 1

Understand more so that you may fear less. That line is the whole point of learning how your anger works: not cleverness, just less fear.

People with a temper are rarely persuaded by being told to calm down, and are often genuinely interested in how the machinery works. Knowing what…

Five minutesWhat you are actually defendingMindfulnessQur’an 16:90

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