When You’re Angry, Do This

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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1:07.6	Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight and wisdom every day life.
1:16.6	Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women.
1:23.6	For more, you can visit us dailystood.com.
1:29.6	When you're angry, do this.
1:32.6	We all have things that upset us. People we know, people we don't know, we get triggered.
1:37.6	Get attacked, receive things happening, stuff happens to us.
1:41.6	Before we get angry, the Stoics remind us, we have to try to stop ourselves.
1:47.6	Athena Doris counseled the Emperor Augustus to count all the letters of the alphabet before doing anything out of anger.
1:54.6	In her book Walk Through Walls, which I carried the painted porch, the artist Marina Abramovich lays down this principle to aspiring artists.
2:02.6	If you get angry, she writes, stop breathing and hold your breath until you can't hold it anymore.
2:07.6	And then inhale fresh air.
2:11.6	As we talk about in the Daily Stoke, came your temper challenge. It would be wonderful if we could get to a place where we don't get provoked or bothered in the first place.
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