The care and feeding of an Angry: An owner’s manual to a healthy emotion

We get a lot of mileage BEING an emotion. Truth is, we ARE NOT our emotions. We observe them. This is the secret that meditation tries to teach us (watch it float down the river... Let your answer be a tiny boat....)

Is is also, quite possibly, the biggest challenge of being a human.

However, making the shift from wearing an emotion to observing it as a partner in the room can be as liberating as setting down an unruly 30-pound toddler. The emotion is free to run amuck around the room, but we are thusly free (and two-handed) to…