How Does one truly keep calm in an angry world?

Hi everybody,
from my experience drugs are not a solution!

It is better to dig down to see where the anger originates from and try to solve that. A good method is to imagine yourself at the time of the original anger (use the first moment of anger you can remember in your life), close your eyes and go back to that time until you can really feel, see, smell and/or hear the situation.

Now float out of your physical body and rise above your time line. Go up as far as necessary to see yourself and whoever or whatever made you angry underneath you. Dive fully into the situation until you feel the anger again. Now float higher and go back along your time line to 15 Minutes before the anger situation ever happened and see how you feel. Anger is not part of you now as you have never experienced it. From this perspective can you look forward now and see the anger situation coming? How will you react when you confront it prepared? Can you take a different perspective now? If not float higher until you see your whole life time line under you (past, present and future) and look at that one moment from the perspective of the whole. It's just like a drop in the ocean now. Is it still important enough to keep you angry whenever someone presses the "right" button or can you resolve it here and now?

Changing perspective can change your life. This might need some practise when you do it alone but it really works.

For an immediate relief I suggest using the deep breath approach. When people tease or annoy you take a few deep breath and count to 10 or at least to 5 before you answer. Words can be more damaging than swords and nothing is solved if you hit back even harder than they have hit you. Better to let it go because people or events can only hurt us if we let them. If we let whatever happens be ok we cannot be grazed by an insult or whatever it is that angers us.

Hope this helps
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Barbara

I had several friends who were scientologists. That's auditing right?

I know very little about Scientology so could not tell you if they use any of this and how they would call it. The techniques I wrote about are some I use successfully in my coaching praxis (and in my own life whenever necessary ).
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Barbara

Well, it sounds like a good technique. I'll be giving it a try so thank you for the heads up =)