What Your Anger Is Really Saying
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Steven Webb explores the underlying messages of anger and its role in personal growth and emotional expression.
Links to Steven Webb's podcast and how you can support his work. Donate paypal.me/stevenwebb or Coffee stevenwebb.uk Steven's courses , podcasts and links : stevenwebb.uk My teacher Junpo once said a line I have never been able to put down. I have never known an angry person who did not care. Sit with that for a second. Every time you have lost your temper, underneath it was something you cared about. This one is for the person who snaps at the people they love, then sits in the guilt an hour later. Steven starts with a simple picture. Anger is a hammer. In the right hands it builds, in the wrong hands it breaks, and the answer is never to throw the hammer away. Without anger nothing would ever change. You would not be whole without it. The trouble starts young. Don't make a fuss. Calm down. So we learn to sit on it, and what we sit on leaks out sideways, a sharp word, a slammed door, a silence that strips paint. Steven calls anger the bodyguard. It is almost always the second feeling, stood in front of something softer, a hurt, a fear, a sense of not being heard. Drawing on Mondo Zen, the teaching of Junpo's lineage, he names what tends to sit underneath. Fear, sadness, and a…
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Host: Steven Webb
Topics covered
- anger
- emotions
- self-awareness
- mental health
- spirituality
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