Building Your Best Self #8: Working With Anger

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Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. But a very, very loyal friend. It will always tell us when we've been betrayed. It will always tell us when we've betrayed ourselves.

- Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way

Anger is a potent energy that very few men have an empowering relationship with. For many of us, it sabotages, it gnaws away at our insides, it causes us to say and do things we regret, it harbors resentment with the people we love.

There is no way we can be our best selves – our Great Man – when we have such a disempowering relationship with our anger.

And yet, anger also holds the potential to be an incredible gift…if we can learn to build our capacity to work with this powerful emotion.

When a man learns how to experience his anger without suppressing or exploding…he finds his power:

- He speaks up for what he believes in - He maintains his boundaries - He creates safety for others - He resolves conflicts and dissolves resentment

A man who can work with anger in this way is trustworthy. Sexy even.

In This Episode:

• How to stop suppressing – or suppressing and then exploding – your anger
• Why suppressed anger leads to resentment…which in turn builds walls between you and the people you love
• The 4 types of messages that anger is trying to communicate to you
• How the "Board of Directors for your Emotions" visualization technique saved me from acting out of anger and creating 6 months of chaos in my life
• 3 practices to train your nervous system to handle anger more resourcefully and powerfully