Mindful Anger: A Pathway to Emotional Freedom

How to release anger and reconnect to yourself using mindfulness techniques.

Anger is one the most common human emotions, so if you’re not feeling it, then you’re probably unconsciously burying it. But anger that is buried isn’t actually gone. In fact, hidden or covert anger may be just as damaging as the overt, outwardly destructive kind, only it wreaks havoc from the inside-out. All sorts of physical and emotional problems can stem from suppressed anger: headaches, digestive problems, insomnia, just to name a few.

Buried anger is expressed in a continuum, with rage and aggression at the top, and frustration, annoyance, irritation at the bottom, and everything in between. Unless this anger is addressed, it is impossible to overcome.

This book urges readers to practice mindfulness-deliberately allowing physical sensations and emotions to surface so they can be examined and released. This sort of processing of anger-fully felt in the body as it happens, moved out through appropriate expression, and let go-will allow readers to process anger before it becomes unhealthy.

Whether for you or your clients, this book offers simple tools of mindfulness to strengthen your connection with your inner world and learn to explore your anger, paying heed to the important messages it is sending.
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Mindful Anger: A Pathway to Emotional Freedom

How to release anger and reconnect to yourself using mindfulness techniques.

Anger is one the most common human emotions, so if you’re not feeling it, then you’re probably unconsciously burying it. But anger that is buried isn’t actually gone. In fact, hidden or covert anger may be just as damaging as the overt, outwardly destructive kind, only it wreaks havoc from the inside-out. All sorts of physical and emotional problems can stem from suppressed anger: headaches, digestive problems, insomnia, just to name a few.

Buried anger is expressed in a continuum, with rage and aggression at the top, and frustration, annoyance, irritation at the bottom, and everything in between. Unless this anger is addressed, it is impossible to overcome.

This book urges readers to practice mindfulness-deliberately allowing physical sensations and emotions to surface so they can be examined and released. This sort of processing of anger-fully felt in the body as it happens, moved out through appropriate expression, and let go-will allow readers to process anger before it becomes unhealthy.

Whether for you or your clients, this book offers simple tools of mindfulness to strengthen your connection with your inner world and learn to explore your anger, paying heed to the important messages it is sending.
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Mindful Anger: A Pathway to Emotional Freedom

Mindful Anger: A Pathway to Emotional Freedom

by Andrea Brandt
Mindful Anger: A Pathway to Emotional Freedom

Mindful Anger: A Pathway to Emotional Freedom

by Andrea Brandt

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Overview

How to release anger and reconnect to yourself using mindfulness techniques.

Anger is one the most common human emotions, so if you’re not feeling it, then you’re probably unconsciously burying it. But anger that is buried isn’t actually gone. In fact, hidden or covert anger may be just as damaging as the overt, outwardly destructive kind, only it wreaks havoc from the inside-out. All sorts of physical and emotional problems can stem from suppressed anger: headaches, digestive problems, insomnia, just to name a few.

Buried anger is expressed in a continuum, with rage and aggression at the top, and frustration, annoyance, irritation at the bottom, and everything in between. Unless this anger is addressed, it is impossible to overcome.

This book urges readers to practice mindfulness-deliberately allowing physical sensations and emotions to surface so they can be examined and released. This sort of processing of anger-fully felt in the body as it happens, moved out through appropriate expression, and let go-will allow readers to process anger before it becomes unhealthy.

Whether for you or your clients, this book offers simple tools of mindfulness to strengthen your connection with your inner world and learn to explore your anger, paying heed to the important messages it is sending.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393709452
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 03/14/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 353 KB

About the Author

Andrea Brandt, PhD, has more than thirty years of experience working with individuals, couples, groups, and children. She is a sought-after television and radio show guest and lives in Santa Monica, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 The Anatomy of Anger 1

Chapter 2 The Key Role of Anger in Emotional Freedom 22

Chapter 3 Mindfulness as a Strategy 37

Chapter 4 How Anger Feels 51

Chapter 5 How to Catch Anger in the Act 68

Chapter 6 How Beliefs Play a Role in Anger 83

Chapter 7 Anger and Childhood Wounds 100

Chapter 8 The Five Steps to Mindfully Releasing Your Anger 114

Chapter 9 Moving on to Forgiveness and Gratitude 140

Chapter 10 Mindfulness and the Emotional Freedom to Connect 157

Chapter 11 Transforming Anger Into Communication 173

Afterword: The New You 191

Bibliography 195

Index 197

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