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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
For most people anger is weather that passes. For some it is closer to climate: quicker to arrive, bigger when it lands, slower to leave.
Knowing which you are changes what you plan for. Weather can be waited out. Climate needs arrangements: sleep kept regular, fewer things stacked on…
Live under enough strain for long enough and anger stops being an event. It settles into a new normal, and it can feel as though your character has changed.
Ask what has been running in the background: money, pain, night shifts, a job that grinds, somebody ill at home. When those ease the baseline often…
Your family had its own rules about anger, quite apart from anything cultural. Those are the ones that shaped you, and they can be renegotiated.
Name two of them plainly. Nobody leaves the table. Whoever shouts loudest wins. We do not mention it the next day. Then ask which you still want.…
Sometimes the row is not really about the row. Some people reach for conflict because it is the one thing that makes them feel properly awake.
If you notice you feel sharp and alive during an argument and flat afterwards, that is worth sitting with rather than being ashamed of. The need…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Before treating a temper as a character problem, check the body. Poor sleep, hunger, a new medication, drinking, a head injury and a number of neurological conditions all show up as a short fuse.
This matters most when the change is recent. Somebody even tempered for forty years who is now flying off at nothing has usually got something…