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10% Happier with Dan Harris

An Episode About Anger | Jacoby Ballard

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the social justice educator and activist Jacoby Ballard talks about a universal, or near universal, issue: anger. And, he offers us two mental skills that can help channel anger into something even more powerful and effective. Those skills are forgiveness and equanimity. 


Ballard is a meditation and yoga teacher and the author of a new book called, A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation


Content Warnings: There are some brief references to sensitive topics, including trauma and suicide. 


In this episode we talk about: 


  • How he went from an activist largely fueled by anger to a dharma teacher with a very different approach
  • The sometimes useful role of anger in activism and the danger of being stuck in anger mode
  • The subtle but powerful move of getting in touch with what is beneath our anger
  • Using annoyance as a jumping off point for inner investigation
  • Ways to work with anger and learning to discharge the energy in our body 
  • Forgiveness, including forgiving ourselves
  • Getting over our need to be right
  • Equanimity, or as Jacoby calls it, his “tussle with equanimity”



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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the 10% happier podcast.

0:06.3

I'm Dan Harris.

0:09.1

Hello.

0:10.8

Okay.

0:11.8

Today we're going to talk about what I suspect is a universal or at least near universal

0:16.4

issue.

0:17.4

Anger.

0:18.4

Speaking personally, this is one of my most prominent inner struggles.

0:21.6

Anger can be clarifying and motivating, but it can also make me extremely stupid.

0:27.5

Most of the apologies I've had to issue in my life are the result of my having been carried

0:32.6

away by rage.

0:34.8

Today though, we're going to talk not just about anger, but also about two mental skills

0:39.0

that can help us channel our anger into something even more powerful and effective.

0:44.4

And those skills are forgiveness and equanimity.

0:47.9

My guest is Jacobi Ballard, who's a meditation and yoga teacher.

0:52.0

We talked about how he went from an activist who was largely fueled by anger to a Dharma

0:58.1

teacher who has a very different but no less committed approach.

1:02.6

We talked about this sometimes useful role of anger in activism and other aspects of

1:06.6

life, but the danger of being stuck in anger mode.

1:10.9

We talked about the subtle but powerful move of getting in touch with what is beneath

1:15.1

our anger, using annoyance as a jumping off point for inner investigation.

1:21.6

Basic ways to work with anger, including sitting for tea with it, which I changed to having

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