Express Your Anger
Idea Stimulator #6
Ticked Off!
Ticked Off!
Anger can be expressed in many ways. There's an abundance of terms for anger including expressions like "Ticked Off" which means being about to explode like a bomb. How many ways can you think of to express anger? How can you turn them into a series of images? Blow one's stack. Get under one's skin. Have a chip on your shoulder. Have a hemorrhage. Miffed. Pissed off. Throw a fit. Lose your cool.
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That is an interesting dichotomy.
What would it look like if you were angry all day?
Can you imagine a day without happiness?
Reflect on the most angry person you have ever met.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
What have you done or witnessed that was too hot to handle?
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
In one of my Heartstorming Circles, we wrote anger statements on index cards.
The cards were burned in an old coffee can.
As they burned each person read their anger statement out loud and proclaimed
that particular anger no longer serves them.
The ritual seemed to open more space for happiness.
Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
In what ways can you take responsibility for the resentment and guilt that you carry?
If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.
Korean Proverb
In what ways does anger serve you?
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