Myth 1: Anger is
behaviour
I know you are likely getting tired of reading
this over and over again, but a wise man said, “Repetition is the mother of
skill”. So hear this again: Anger is NOT
behaviour! Anger is experienced as a
negative emotion, one of the basic four emotions that we as humans experience:
happy, sad, mad, and afraid. We do not do happy, or sad or afraid. Why then should we expect to do anger? We do not use the term, “I’m getting happy!”
on a regular basis, but it is not unusual for one to say, “I’m getting mad at
you!”
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I have found the myth that anger is behavior to be the most widely believed in our society. It is what I call a “foundational” belief, because almost every other myth that exists about anger rests upon this first one. It is imperative that we go right to the heart of the matter and change this foundational belief. Once this myth is dispelled, the other myths will melt away like the Wicked Witch of the West.
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