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Low mood and hard feelings

Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.

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Working with anger Clear all

Theme · Working with anger

When everything feels flat 54 Emotions as signals 30 Tolerate distress 27 When you use something to cope 24 Shame 19 Question the thought 11 When you go numb 7 Letting it out safely 4 Calm the body 3 Name what you feel 3 Act on your values 3 Working with anger 3 Ride the urge 2

How long you have

A minute 2 Five minutes 1

Approach

Core 2 Mindfulness 1

Choose one short remembrance to say the moment anger rises, and use it every single time.

A prepared word of dhikr catches the anger before it speaks for you.

A minuteWorking with angerMindfulnessQur’an 13:28

Catch the first body sign of anger, the jaw, the chest, the heat, and name it there.

Caught early, anger can be chosen. Caught late, it chooses for you.

A minuteWorking with angerCoreQur’an 42:37

When anger floods you, step away before you speak, and come back when your body is calm.

Past a certain heat the body cannot hear reason. Leave, settle, and return.

Five minutesWorking with angerCoreQur’an 25:63