Working WITH anger (instead of against it)

About This Tool

A perfect tool to enhance awareness of your signs of anger and how to take care of you the best you can in that moment

Anger is a natural form and automatic response to pain (physical and emotional). It can occur when we don’t feel well, feel rejected, feel threatened, feel humiliated and anger is also seen as a secondary emotion. Anger serves as a response to these emotions that are asking for our attention underneath the surface.

To be able to see and take care of these emotions underneath, we need to let the fire move, so it gives a clear sight to see the underlying needs and values of it.

Mostly anger tells us that someone crossed our boundaries and shows us what we actually need, value, how we like to be treated and how we like to treat others.

 

This tool will help you to:

Become more attuned with the signals your body, mind and energy

Increased awareness of the symptoms and your signs of anger

Feel more comfortable and confident in handling agitation, frustration and anger

Becoming more resilient in handling stressful events and sensations

Gain control of your life in order to act on the ups-and-downs of life

Spend more time on self-care

Acting more out of self-love and compassion

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Why It Works

A Review of Emotion Recognition Using Physiological Signals https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069143/

Interoception and emotion https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X17300106

Emotion in the body: Jacobs Hendel, H. (2018). Emotions Are Physical. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 31, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/emotions-are-physical/

Regulating emotion to improve physical health through the amygdala: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381236/

Bodily maps of emotions: L. Nummenmaa, E. Glerean, R. Hari, J. K. Hietanen. Bodily maps of emotions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321664111

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