Category Archives: Anger and the Body
When the Going Gets Rough, Connect with Your Body
When things fall apart in your world it is especially challenging not to lose your perspective. It is easy to get angry and feel burned by life and circumstances, to feel like you are victim of some injustice. However we all know that maintaining a victim stance doesn’t help and … Continue reading
The Power of the Body for Anger Management
Being more connected with your body helps with anger management in two ways: first by preventing anger from occurring as frequently, and also by helping you release the energy of anger more quickly once it has already come up. 1. Prevention: There are many things we can do at the … Continue reading
Opening Your Heart
Our issues with anger management, at the end of the day are issues of the heart. There are countless ways to approach the question of the heart, how it becomes obstructed, and different methods for resolving our issues. In this post we’ll take a very simple approach, that of opening … Continue reading
Working with Uncomfortable Feelings
Part of the picture with chronic anger management problems is that we have a deep habit of avoiding uncomfortable feelings. Life is unpredictable and ever changing, a rich mixture of pain and pleasure, success and failure, coming together and falling apart. We like to feel in control in order to … Continue reading
Shower Exercise
This is an enjoyable and simple exercise you can do it while taking a shower.* Here’s what you do: Take a shower. While you are in the shower, feel the water as it bathes you skin. The idea is to use the sensation of the water to get in touch … Continue reading
Reclaim Your Body
Check right now to see if you can easily inhabit your body. If you are present in your body, it will be very easy to just relax and breath, and you will feel your whole body and being pulse with life force energy. For most people this is difficult. Most … Continue reading
Mountain Exercise
Here is a very simple exercise to help you become more present in your body. You can do it either sitting on a cushion on the floor or on a chair. If you’re sitting on the floor, sit with legs crossed in front of you, as in meditation posture. If … Continue reading
Feeling Good
It’s important to feel good in your body, to be comfortable in your own skin, as often as you can. Many of us have never considered this, even as an idea, let alone as something we would actually pay attention to. All the more so that we need to learn … Continue reading
Body Tapping
This simple exercise helps you feel your body in an earthy way.* Sit comfortably on the ground, on a cushion or however feels best. What you are going to do is gently tap your body, from head to toe. Start with your head. Using your fingertips, pat your scalp, face … Continue reading
When We’re Disembodied
When we are disembodied we experience life largely through our head, and our experience of our body is minimal. We largely experience visual stimuli and mental activity such as thoughts and intellectual processes. The only time we really experience our body is when we have pain, or when it starts … Continue reading
