091: What do I do with my anger?
So many of us are afraid of our anger. We use language like, \u201cdon\u2019t go there\u201d or \u201cstay calm\u201d. We to push it down and shove it away and teach ourselves to hide from it, and hide it from others. In fact, this is the programming we get from others when we have anger. People close to us tell us to \u201cchill out\u201d, \u201ccalm down\u201d or even \u201cget over it\u201d. The most insidious: sometimes we even hear \u201cyou are scaring me\u201d. Of course, we don\u2019t want to scare others, so we shove down this powerful emotion, and there it sits, simmering.
But anger is an emotion of change. If we learn to sit with our anger just as we sit with our other emotions, we can come to understand it, to learn from it, and maybe even to love it in time. This week on the show, we\u2019re talking all about the anger that lives inside of all of us, and how we can live in harmony with it instead of fear!
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