Archive for November, 2009

Letting Go of Anger

November 24th, 2009  

As powerful and overwhelming as anger can be, there’s nothing solid or substantial about it. It’s made of thoughts and energy and it only becomes solid when we make it so in our mind. This being the case, on one level it’s a very doable thing to let go of anger…

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Mindfulness and Anger Management: The Neuro-Emotional Bridge

November 18th, 2009  

Anne Dranitsaris Ph.D. describes the connection between the brain, emotions, and anger, and explains how mindfulness meditation can strengthen that connection. This gives us more access to our emotional life and better anger management skills.

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Reclaim Your Body

November 16th, 2009  

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Check right now to see if you can easily inhabit your body. If you are present in your body, it will be very easy to just relax and breath, and you will feel your whole body and being pulse with life force energy. For most people this is difficult. Most of us live as disembodied people.

When you are grounded in your body, the experience of body is always there as a background, earth like feeling. Rather than continually experiencing mental energy, you feel body energy. This is different than the ‘thought’ of your body…

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Beyond Anger Management: Anger as a Pathway of Wisdom

November 8th, 2009  

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“Beyond Anger Management: Anger as a Pathway of Wisdom.” This is quite a lofty title for an article, so what exactly does it mean? The words in the title itself give us a clue…

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Gentleness and Discipline on the Path

November 7th, 2009  

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Two essential ingredients we need when making any transformational journey are gentleness and discipline. These two go hand in hand, and one without the other inevitably leads us astray.

Gentleness is the quality of being kind to ourselves. We need to go easy and treat ourselves with love and tenderness as we work with our angry state of mind…

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