How To Let Go of Anger
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Are you still mad at someone who hurt you in the past? That can eat away at your health and well-being. Our Happiness Guinea Pig tries a new approach to giving up a grudge.
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| 0:00.0 | We all know that sitting for hours of screen time is bad, but can we fix it? |
| 0:05.0 | I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions with computing. |
| 0:11.0 | Ultimately, it's a culture change. |
| 0:13.4 | NPR's Body Electric, a special interactive series investigating the relationship between our |
| 0:19.4 | tech and our bodies. |
| 0:21.2 | Listen in the Ted Radio Hour feed wherever you get your podcasts. our my parents native country of Sri Lanka, aimed at our people, the Tamil Sri Lankan people. |
| 0:35.4 | But it's been a long bloody civil war with violence coming from the Tamils and violence coming |
| 0:41.6 | from the other side, so they're blamed to go around but in the end a lot of a lot lot lot tens of thousands of innocent people women and children just innocent people were killed. Brother can you spare some peace of mind? |
| 0:58.0 | I can seem to keep up with these time. And so it's incredibly hard to let go of anger that you have about that. I do have |
| 1:10.0 | family members and some of them have let go of that and some family |
| 1:14.6 | members and some Tamil friends I know are kind of consumed by it. They look worse |
| 1:19.6 | for the wear basically you know it's it's eating them. |
| 1:23.0 | And it's hard to tell somebody |
| 1:26.0 | you got to let go of your anger because it's so personal, |
| 1:29.0 | but it's for the collective, you know, millions of people around the world who are Tamil Sri |
| 1:35.8 | Lunkins who have felt that issue. |
| 1:38.3 | It's a helpless feeling filled with hopelessness and anger. |
| 1:41.6 | So you can't do anything with the helplessness and hopelessness too much. and |
| 1:44.1 | hopelessness too much but you can't do anything with the helplessness and hopelessness too much but you can probably kind of curve your anger towards that person and |
| 1:49.0 | focus your energies on something maybe more productive. |
| 1:56.0 | Folk rock musician Bee Beeman songs |
| 1:58.0 | cover issues like immigration, voter suppression, |
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