Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at

Rachelcable.com.

Each week this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress

and live more mindfully in the modern world.

Hello and welcome to episode 240 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

I hope you're well and taking good care of yourself at the moment.

I'm really excited about this episode.

I've been working on my own experiences with anger

for a long time and I've learned some really powerful things that I can't wait to share with you.

In this episode, you'll learn more about anger, why it's not a bad thing and constructive

strategies to help you process anger. So anger can be a perfectly

reasonable and appropriate emotion in a variety of situations and yet many people have

learned to see it as bad. According to the American Psychological Association, anger is an

emotion characterized by antagonism

towards someone or something you feel has deliberately done you wrong. It's also related

to the fight or flight response because it physiologically prepares your body to fight.

Perhaps anger is often perceived as problematic because it can lead to aggression.

However, anger and aggression are not the same things. Anger is a basic human emotion, just like

happiness and sadness, whereas aggression is behaviour that's intended to harm or intimidate someone else.

It's important to know that you can feel angry and not react in ways that hurt other people.

You can feel angry and be rational and make good choices.

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