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Cultivating
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In this second module you will explore a
powerful training aimed at helping you deal with the emotions
of anger.
Angry at anger
Anger is perhaps the most troublesome
of emotions because it is the emotion which most often results
in hurting others.
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Can you
identify the kinds of things that most commonly cause
you to become angry? Which things have the most powerful
angry response? Can you identify a common theme in
the triggers of your anger?
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Anger most often comes from feeling thwarted
or threatened. We see or imagine an obstacle or interference
that is thwarting us and we need to remove. We think we feel
that we need to.
So anger is often preceded physical interference, frustration,
someone trying to hurt us, or another person's anger.
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Is it true for you that
anger calls forth anger? Do you find it difficult to
not respond to someone else's anger with anger?"
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"Anger" actually encompasses
many different feelings. What are some of the feelings
and emotional experiences that you would place under
the umbrella of "my anger?"
Do you experience anger as indignation,
self-righteous anger, sulking, passive anger, or revenge?
Does the strength of your "anger"
vary? Does anger manifest as annoyance? As fury or
wrath?
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