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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.
When anger comes it takes the whole body with it: heart, hands, voice, attention. The system would rather do too much than too little.
That preference made sense where missing a real threat was fatal and an unnecessary fight was survivable. It is why the response feels so total and…
The nervous system grows in the womb out of the same layer as your skin. Sensing and being touched come from one origin, which is part of why threat is felt on the surface of you.
The biology does not have to be exact for the picture to be useful. Attention paid to the surface, the temperature of your hands, the tightness…
There is a dense network of nerves lining the gut, which is part of why a bad feeling turns up in your stomach before you can say what is wrong.
Take it as information without treating it as a verdict. A tightening gut might mean real danger, or an old pattern recognised, or that you have not…
Under threat your thinking narrows to two boxes: with me or against me, safe or dangerous. It is fast and crude, and you can catch it happening.
The giveaway words are always, never, everyone, typical, exactly like last time. Hearing yourself use them is a sign of the narrowing rather than a…
There is more about anger than the practices: the anger area has the themes and the courses too.
Most anger episodes are over within minutes, which is no comfort at all. Nearly everything irreversible happens in the first few seconds.
The punch, the sentence you cannot take back, the resignation, the message sent. The threat reading is finished in about half a second while the part…