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Are you friends with your anger? I struggled with suppressing my anger for years. I still struggle with it.

Buddhists believe all emotions are from One Energy, and that you need to befriend all of your emotions.

From experience, I observed that suppressing anger and avoiding my emotions actually caused me to feel less happiness & love.

Obsessing over shitcoins, spending the majority of my time on Clubhouse and listening to podcasts & audiobooks was a way to distract me from my emotions.

It wasn’t until I started prioritizing my mind & body through making commitments to myself and keeping them that I eventually found my emotions again.

The advice from the book is to acknowledge your anger, recognize it and observe it - only then can you do something about it.

If you are feeling or experiencing anything in this list, you might want to acknowledge you have repressed anger and find one thing in your life you can change to befriend all of your emotions.

Is it wake up earlier, meditate more, read more books on mindset / self, exercise more, spend more time with loved ones, have more fun?

For me it’s all of the above + continuing to find new good habits.

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Olyahelp 3mo ago

Recognizing your anger is half the battle. Once you stop running away from it, there is room for calm.

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