Re: Dealing with Anger / Crankiness

[Anonymous]

Feeling the physical sensations is good because the sensations are often the same for different emotions. So the next time you do get angry, just try to stop and feel what you feel, get curious. In my case, the first time I did this, the anger subsided in about 30 seconds. But getting rid of the anger is not the point – it’s just to feel it, and not to react to it or dump on other people. My teacher says that emotions are just there to be experienced. They don’t last unless we indulge them in some way.

Avoiding situations that might lead to blowups doesn’t help either, since the emotion is still lurking in the background somewhere just waiting to be triggered. You could try to get familiar with it, even if it means triggering it when you’re not in a blowup situation. It’s possible to practice feeling it and doing nothing to try to change it.

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