Anger management is a confusing term. It can be understood to mean supressing anger, which is not the point at all. To learn to manage your anger is to learn to hold your anger in the palm of your hand, and to deal skillfully with it. Anger management techniques may … Continue reading
Settle into this Moment
OK fine, be angry, be as angry as you need to be, and then settle down. Settle down into your body and your heart, settle down your angry tirade, it’s time to relax and find yourself in a better place. We are all searching for that better place, but it … Continue reading
Anger: Let it Change Like the Weather
Anger is fine, it’s not as big a deal as we often make it out to be. Anger comes and anger goes, just like the weather, it is all quite natural and to be expected. But weather changes and flows, it doesn’t stay stuck in one mode for too long. … Continue reading
When You Feel Hurt
When you feel hurt by a circumstances or other people, do your best to not shut down. This is a pivotal moment in learning to better manage anger. If you can get to it before anger actually arises you win the contest by a long shot. Take a notebook with you this week … Continue reading
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What are You Up to?
What are you doing with yourself these days? Are you enjoying what you are doing? If not, what can you do to change that situation? Can you change your attitude, or change the circumstances, or change the actual thing you are doing? Do whatever you can to set your life … Continue reading
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Good as Gold
It is tempting, when we look at the aggression in our mind and in the world to think that human nature is flawed. But human nature at its core is good, and when we work at it, this goodness becomes apparent, and it begins to shine out like gold.
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Never Give Up
Never ever give up on yourself, or on life altogether. When the going gets rough, when anger is cutting you like a blade, when your heart is crushing with the weight of negativity, even then, especially then, don’t give up and give in to the downward pull. Lift your head and … Continue reading
Movement Inwards
The journey of learning to better manage anger is essentially a journey into the heart. The closer you get to the heart of the matter, the more your anger will soften and gradually melt away, like ice cubes in the sun.
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Sand Fantasy: My Eyes
Another magic act by the sand artist Ilana Yahav:
Whoever You Are, You are Good
When you suffer from excessive anger and have problems managing your anger, the chances are high that you are not being accepting and kind with yourself. You most likely have such low levels of self esteem that you don’t have much warmth towards our own self. We blame ourself for … Continue reading
