Are there any influences that
you would like to add?
Anxiety
Shame
Sadness
Fear
Hurt
Guilt
Worry
Frustration
Disappointment
Embarrassment
Jealousy
Misunderstood
Betrayal
Think about the times that you
have felt or acted angry, and
look at the list to identify your
underlying emotion(s) to better
recognize the real issue(s).
Next, I encourage you to
additionally go one step further.
Think back and identify when
in your history, most frequently
during your childhood, you
experienced that earlier
emotion. Emotional extremes,
like anger, are usually triggered
by an earlier experience, for
which the current event is a
reminder. Now you have the
potential to address it at its root
in order to release the anger.
Fear is another emotional
extreme. This is because there
are rarely any situations of
true endangerment. Yet our
physiologic system doesn’t
differentiate, and assumes that
we are in true danger. When
we understand the process,
we can actually minimize our
physical symptoms and our
related thoughts and feelings.
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