Working with Anger: Costs and Benefits, Repression, and the "Empty Boat"

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Anger is one of the most complex, demanding, and difficult emotions we deal with on a regular basis, in part because it has both many costs and many uses. It burdens our bodies, relationships, and the world around us. And at the same time, there is a vital energy associated with anger that is extremely powerful and, when harnessed effectively, quite useful. On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson explore the varied ways anger surfaces, how we can relate to it, and how in recognizing what it has to tell us we can channel its energy towards good ends. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 2:10: Framing anger relative to other emotions 6:15: The three poisons 12:20: Useful aspects of anger and issues with labeling it as bad 22:45: Repression and not downregulating others’ emotions 28:30: Treating anger with respect rather than fear 30:15: What supports us in healthily claiming anger? 38:00: Characteristics that can predispose people to be angry 39:40: The Empty Boat and recognizing anger as an affliction against onesself 43:10: Recap Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Have a question for us? Email: contact@beingwellpodcast.com to submit questions or potential topics you'd like us to explore in future episodes. Sponsors: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Try Splendid Spoon today and take meal-planning off your plate. Just go to SplendidSpoon.com/BEINGWELL for $50 off your first box Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.3	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before,
0:14.3	welcome back.
0:15.5	I've been thinking about Anger a lot recently.
0:19.0	Anger is one of the most complex, demanding, and difficult emotions that we deal with on
0:23.4	a regular basis, and I think that this comes down to the fact that two things both seem
0:28.5	clearly true to me.
0:30.2	The first is that Anger comes with many costs, cost to our bodies, our relationships,
0:35.4	and then so many costs out in the world.
0:38.0	And then the second thing that's true is that there's a vital energy associated with
0:42.4	anger that is extremely powerful and when harnessed can be immensely useful.
0:48.8	It's a mobilizing force both in our own lives and then socially.
0:52.9	And I think that it's because both of these aspects are so apparent that anger is a
0:58.4	bit challenging to talk about sometimes, and we get a lot of questions related to this
1:02.7	emotional experience.
1:04.6	And people argue about the relative value of anger a lot more than they do for related
1:10.4	emotions like happiness or sadness, fear, whatever else people experience.
1:15.7	So today we're going to be exploring anger, particularly how we can relate to it in
1:19.7	general, and then focusing on how we can use the positive aspects of it without being
1:25.3	used by the more problematic aspects.
1:28.3	So to help us do that, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick is a clinical
1:32.9	psychologist, a best-selling author, and he's also my dad.
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