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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 you are actually defending Twenty minutes Clear all

Theme · What you are actually defending

What anger actually is 10 The moment before you snap 8 Cool the body first 6 The fear underneath anger 6 Growing empathy 4 Righteous anger and perfectionism 4 Choosing your response 4 When anger turns to harm 4 Equanimity and perspective 3 Anger, alcohol and the body 3 Practising under provocation 3 Making it stick 3 What you are actually defending 1

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 6 Five minutes 16 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 1

A small child works out how to feel about itself by looking at its parents' faces. If that face was missing, or busy, the looking does not stop, it just moves on to teachers, coaches, friends and strangers.

It is part of why being disrespected can feel so much larger than the moment deserves. Some of that old search is still running. The work is slow and…

Twenty minutesWhat you are actually defendingCoreQur’an 50:16