Introduction, anger is a natural part of human nature. Anger has a lot of energy. It can get things done.
Study:
Healthy anger is appropriate to the event.
Healthy anger is short, not lasting a long time.
Unhealthy anger is destructive to our relationships.
Unhealthy anger has too much self referencing included with it.
Practice:
Not feeding the emotion of anger with self-referencing thoughts.
Keep the mind interested, in watching all the thought that arise.
'Feel the Feeling', physical sensations of anger (heat, tightness).
Do not feed the feeling more unhealthy self referencing thoughts.
Reflection:
Calmly remember what caused the emotion of anger to arise.
What memories made it stronger?
What thoughts made it stronger?
Are they helpful?
Letting go:
Feel and honour the feelings/sensations of anger in the body.
Stop adding more unhelpful/unskillful thoughts/images to it.
Then just 'let it go'
Intention:
Set a wise intention, on how to work with this event the next time.
About Me
- Stress Meditation
- Ross and his wife live in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, Ontario, Canada. They have two adult children. Ross who now works at the University of Guelph, in 1995 on the advice of his doctor resigned from a career which he had enjoyed for the over 25 years. This came as a result of struggling with many lengthy family illnesses, increased work loads and a physical injury. Sensing that there were better ways to manage these stressors, he began doing yoga and practicing meditation. After attending a weekend insight meditation retreat and experiencing his energy being restored for the next six weeks, he knew that insight meditation was helpful in managing stress. Later,he traveled to a Buddhist retreat centre in Sri Lanka where he was trained by a nun to teach meditation to others. He then returned to Canada and has freely offered support those who are interested in developing meditation skills. He has also examined the scientific approach to understanding stress on the body, heart and mind. His intention is to find simple yet powerful ways of reducing harmful stress, through a blend of western science, eastern philosophy and personal experience.
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