At its most essential level, the energy of anger is the basic clarity of the human mind. Anger is the sharpness of the mental faculty which we all possess. Anyone doing math or reading a book or thinking clearly about …

Have you ever seen a kid in a grocery store lose it? He clenches his face, hitting his fists, and then starts crying and yelling. It’s embarrassing for his parents…

Anger covers over a tender and wounded heart. Anger is a hard shell of protection that we use to keep ourselves from experiencing our deeper, vulnerable feelings. If we can stay open with the energy of anger and not suppress …

Angry people are caught in a trap. When we’re angry all the time we’ve become caught in the trap of our own making and we don’t know how to get out…

Anger is a form of energy. Before we act anger out and before we suppress it, anger is a free flowing energetic formation. This natural energy arises when our integrity or the integrity of other people or situations are threatened…

It’s not easy to define anger causes, to pin down the causes of anger in the space of a single article, but we can at least make some broad stroke statements. Since everyone is unique, the factors underlying everyone’s anger is also unique, but there are some general statements we can make about anger causes that apply to most people…

Emotions live in our body. This includes sadness, joy, grief, fear, love, jealousy, and of course, anger and all of its expressions. Depending on how present we are in our own body, we have that much ability to be present with the energy of these emotions…

How easily people move through problematic anger will vary widely from person to person. For some the journey with anger is relatively easy and with a few months of dedicated process work they no longer find anger is giving them problems. For others, it may be years of dealing with chronic anger before things finally lighten up…

One of the things anger does is help create change. It is fundamentally creative energy with an impulse towards change and growth. Deep inside nobody wants to stay stuck in…

Buddhist meditation practice is a laboratory where, for centuries people have explored the depths of the human mind, including emotions, thought processes, and physical experience. All this meditation has given rise to a deep understanding of mind and the human condition…

One way to understand anger is to look at the hardened shell of self protection we live with. People with lots of anger are sensitive and guarded individuals, and the smallest trigger causes us to feel hurt and threatened.

Because we are so sensitive we need protection around our tender self. Anger is one of the ways we create a wall around our vulnerability. Yet ironically this shell of anger leaves us even more vulnerable because by nature, anger invites more attacks on a continuous basis…

At a very basic level, anger is an intelligent response to some kind of perceived threat or unfavorable circumstances. The first instant of anger is a moment of clarity that sees, “This isn’t right.” Anger is a form of intelligence that serves us in various ways…

One of the reasons we experience anger is because we are out of sync with the ordinary goodness of being alive. We are out of touch with the natural positive aspects of being human, and this disconnection leaves us anxious and angry…

How we view and understand anger largely determines how we experience its effects in our life. This article will look at two contrasting views..