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Practices

Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

Narrowed down

3 practices

Anger Equanimity and perspective Twenty minutes Clear all

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 17 Five minutes 44 Twenty minutes 3 Longer 4

Who it is written for

Me 3 A practitioner 3 Someone I care about 2

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 2 Struggling right now 1

Theme · Equanimity and perspective

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

Approach

Core 2 Mindfulness 1

When

Any ordinary day 2 Under stress 1

The aim is not to become someone with no force in them. It is to get a harness on the force and point it at something worth doing.

Anger usually knows something true: this was unfair, this matters to me, this cannot carry on. Keep that part and drop the delivery. The energy can…

Twenty minutesEquanimity and perspectiveCoreQur’an 12:86

Look back at a fight you went out of your way to have and pride is often what was driving. Being right and being respected feel like needs in the moment, and they cost far more than they return.

This changes what there is to work on. Breathing exercises will not touch a fight you are having in order to prove you are somebody. The question…

Twenty minutesEquanimity and perspectiveCoreQur’an 28:88

The real skill is not spotting the hole in their reasoning. It is running the same test on the belief you hold most tightly.

Pick something you are sure of, something you would defend at a family dinner, and ask what it would look like if it were only mostly true. Where…

Twenty minutesEquanimity and perspectiveMindfulnessQur’an 53:39

There is more about anger than the practices: the anger area has the themes and the courses too.