How to Work through Anger without Creating Harm - Episode 112
There are many unique ways that we experience or express tightness due to anger, impatience, irritation, intolerance—or holding onto anger. It's a mini-miracle whenever we can shift from being against what we don't like to being supportive and passionate about what we need. We generally haven’t as a society found ways both in the outer world and the inner world to find a way to contain or slow down our resistant emotions like anger, frustration, accusations, and judgments, which has led to war, alienation, distrust, and an inability to communicate. Acting out anger or resistant emotions or suppressing them dramatically reduces our capacity to trust and creates personal, religious, political, and global separation.
This podcast will help you stay aware of where your anger resides and how you express it. Awareness is neutral, not critical, nor judgmental. Don't suppress it; direct your anger to the source or the need you have that is being frustrated in a safe place away from the immediate situation. You will be supported to express it to yourself in a harmless and constructive way, deeply feeling it without acting it out directly. If you can't get away from the situation when it arises, there are four skills you can use:
- Recognize the feeling.
- Understand that expressing it at that moment won't be helpful.
- Find a way to delay it without revealing your feelings through facial expressions or the tone of your voice.
- Go to a place where you can do the work.
Find a way to honor the feeling, but not in the heated moment, to whatever degree is possible. See if you recognize this as the start of the path toward self-love, conflict resolution, and inner and outer peace.
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