Communication Skills
Relating with Others
Research shows that roughly 75 percent of anger happens in the context of relating with other people.* Relating with others is not easy, even for the most anger free person, and when we have problems with anger the difficulty is… Read the full post
Kindness Practice
Perhaps the very best relationship skill you could ever develop is basic human kindness. Kindness dissolves all animosity, forges friendships, makes others like you and want to be kind back to you. The gift of kindness makes other people feel… Read the full post
Watch Your Language
One way we perpetuate anger is with our speech. Words are powerful because they reinforce our thoughts. Negative and angry speech creates and supports a negative and angry mind. So an effective way to work with your anger is to… Read the full post
Speak Your Mind
A common cause of pent-up, restricted anger that many of us experience comes from not speaking our mind. Everybody knows what it’s like to not say something when you know you should. We all have a friend or partner or… Read the full post
Speak and Listen
Anger frequently plays out during communication with others. For all kinds of reasons, relating with other people triggers our anger patterns. There are things we can do so that anger creates less problems for us while communicating. Here is an… Read the full post
Reducing Conflict With Better Communication
Written By Maria Rainier When I feel angry, it’s difficult to think clearly in the moment, so I tend to avoid trying to make sense of what I’m feeling. It’s usually easier to look back at a confrontation or angry… Read the full post
Mindfulness of Speaking and Listening
Communicating with others is an intense and challenging aspect of being human, and it’s often the time when our habitual patterns give us the most trouble. Being angry when alone is one thing, but once you bring others into the… Read the full post
Managing Anger in Relationships
Written by Alexis Bonari Anger is a natural feeling. Everyone gets angry from time to time. What matters is how we deal with that anger. If we suppress it or we don’t manage it properly, we can express it inappropriately,… Read the full post
