Anger Therapy

Then use your anger to become more yourself, more at peace, more alive.

You can love your anger without living your anger.

Release and resolve your anger and you will release unbounded passion, energy, and joy.

If you suppress one emotion, like anger, you damage your total emotional well-being.

Let your anger guide you to social as well as personal change. Defend the innocent, protect the weak, help the helpless. Advocate, vote, minister, volunteer, serve others. Turn your anger at injustice into energy for transforming the world.

The negative traits in others that anger us are often those that we reject in ourselves. Bring your shadow side—the impulses and weaknesses that you hide from yourself and others—into the light of self-truth.

You are not responsible for others’ anger, only for your own actions. If you have inadvertently offended someone, apologize and do your part to make things right. If you have hurt someone intentionally, also explore the source of your own anger.

Listen nonjudgmentally and without fear to others’ anger—including that of children. Respect and validate their anger, whether or not you agree with their issues. Their anger belongs to them and need not threaten you.

When you hold on to your resentment, you freeze yourself in a victim’s role, freezing some of your emotional energy as well. Let the warmth of understanding and the awareness of your worth thaw your emotions.

Once you deal with your anger, you can turn your attention to forgiving