Understanding Your Anger // SPARTAN MIND 044

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Anger is one of those emotions that few like to acknowledge and even fewer like to talk about. Either way, however, avoiding anger doesn’t mean that it goes away. In fact, the more you understand your anger the more likely you are to manage your responses appropriately and not be overcome by expression. It’s important to remember that anger is a normal emotion and, although it may be uncomfortable, it is neutral in nature. We also all experience and feel anger at various points in our life - denying your anger usually only makes it grow and become less easy to manage.

LESSONS:
Anger is a part of being human. Recognizing and understanding your anger gives you an opportunity to manage this feeling more appropriately.
Use the right language when you are describing how you feel. It’s okay to say, “I’m angry.” You don’t have to water it down by using language like frustrated or annoyed.
Give yourself permission to stop, pull back, take perspective, observe, and then choose the next right move for you when you are angry.

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Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up Spartans? I'm Dr. L. Your Chief Mind Doc here with Spartan Mind,
0:09.7	where I'm here every Wednesday helping you work through and clear out that junk in your head
0:14.6	so that you can perform better on the race course and just generally in life
0:19.2	because you're going to do that when you don't have all this cloudiness up here.
0:23.0	All right?
0:23.8	Okay, today we are dedicating an entire episode
0:27.5	to just one emotion, anger.
0:31.3	I know you might be thinking, what, a whole four minutes dedicated to anger. I know you might be thinking what a whole four minutes dedicated to anger. Yes, I'm telling you it is worth it. Okay? Because we as a society are not very good at handling anger.
0:43.3	One of the reasons is we think of anger as a negative emotion,
0:47.0	and let me be really clear here.
0:49.0	Anger is a neutral emotion.
0:51.0	It's what we do with anger that either makes it positive or negative.
0:55.2	People have been enraged and done really great things with that rage, right?
1:00.8	They've marched for different rights, they've advocated for different
1:05.4	things because they're really angry about it. Good stuff. Other people have
1:10.4	done not such great things with anger, right, and become destructive or
1:15.0	become really aggressive because of anger. That's how anger can become
1:19.6	negative, right? So you can use anger to propel you in a positive way or to propel you in a
1:25.8	negative way, but it's not a negative emotion. And a lot of people believe it's a negative
1:30.8	emotion and therefore they're either afraid of it or they
1:34.3	deny they have it altogether and if you're listening on this podcast right now and
1:38.6	you're thinking well I just don't really get angry that That is a load of bull. You absolutely do. And if you're a
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