Wisdom Anger Management

Pema Chodron explains “maitri” which translates as loving kindness.

When we are angry, we desire to do harm. We want to either harm ourself, a situation, or another person or persons. For all kinds of reasons, causing harm is a very bad idea so we need to find ways to stop doing this…

As a way to create a strong environment for your anger management efforts, choose one day where you work hard to not lose your seat with anger. We all lead busy lives, and despite our aspirations to…

Author of Stumbling on Happiness Dan Gilbert challenges the assumption that not getting what we want makes us unhappy.

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 makes you ugly. It’s true!

It’s tempting to see ego mind as the big bad enemy. Because it gives us so much trouble there can be a tendency to vilify the illusion of ego, and then to direct our efforts towards…

In Buddhist lingo, the struggle to maintain the illusion of solidity and comfort is known as ego, which is different than the western notion of a healthy ego…

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 …

Pema Chodron talks about anger, and how being provoked by the world helps us see our own blind spots, the places where we “get hooked.”