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“I was angry and I owned the feeling fully without making it anyone else's problem.”
You let yourself be angry — really angry — without performing it at anyone or pretending it away. The feeling was yours to hold; the spilling would have made it theirs to clean up. Owning only what is yours means carrying your own emotion without handing the bill to the nearest person.
Your Practice
- Name the anger to yourself, plainly and without shame.
- Resist aiming it at whoever is closest and convenient.
- Move it through your body — walk, breathe, write — not at a person.
- Address the real cause once the heat has passed.
The Architects
“Of things some are in our power, and others are not. In our power are opinion, movement towards a thing, desire, aversion; and in a word, whatever are our own acts.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion, ch. I (George Long translation)