FIVE STEPS TO DEALING WITH ANGER

[Pheena]

1. Feel the feeling arising;

2. Acknowledge it as anger, rather than denying and suppressing it;

3. Observe it, analyze the reasons and components of it;

4. Embrace it, cradle it rather than rejecting it outright;

5. Channel it constructively (creatively), rather than destructively

(violently).

Learning:

"Hatred is never overcome by hatred and anger.

Hatred is overcome by love, forbearance and forgiveness."

The Buddha

Clues:

Anger is best dealt with by patience and forbearance;

Hatred by forgiveness, tolerance and equanimity;

Aggression by calming and quieting, and including;

Violence by restraint, redirection and reconditioning.