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Anger Management
through Ayurveda
On the drive home from my daughter’s to stop him stating, “…I have no idea
piano recital in Denver today, my family where that [anger] came from, but I
got caught up intently listening to an was in a complete wild red rage”. Like
NPR program on ‘The Logic of Rage’. others, I myself have experienced acting
Several mild-mannered people told out of rage. Such behavior can spiral
stories of how they were triggered into into feelings of deep shame, becoming
pure rage. So much so, that they felt like unprocessed emotions that circulates in
an outsider watching themselves as they the body, and turn into diseases such as
lashed out in one way or another. One hypertension, depression, insomnia, and
female environmentalist, with a peace burning out of the nerves.
ecology flag hanging on her bedroom
wall, saw her neighbor bulldozing trees The trigger for an angry reaction comes
down in his yard to make his driveway in the form of auditory, visual, or other
shorter. She described her instant sensory input that goes straight to the
reaction of jumping on his bulldozer amygdala, bypassing our conscious,
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