This is, put simply, one of the best books on mindfulness that I have read.
In Daily Meditations for Calming Your Angry Mind: Mindfulness Practices to Free Yourself from Anger, Jeffrey Brantley and Wendy Millstine provide about forty mindfulness exercises to help people focus on their special need or challenge regarding anger. They help us use various meditations to move past anger and instead respond to things that upset us with calm and kindness.
Brantley and Millstine seem to work well together: their book reads seamlessly and avoids style changes that sometimes accompany books with co-authors. In the preface, both authors offer their personal story relating to anger issues. This lends credibility, and made me feel that they understand readers’ daily challenges.
In basic terms, anger is an emotion that can arise based upon our perceptions of an event. We all have experienced anger, to varying degrees and with varying frequency. However, we don’t all react in the same way. The same event may provoke serious anger in one person and barely a ripple in another. In fact, the same event may induce different reactions in the very same person when we are in different moods or have other stressors on our minds.
[For more of this story, written by Jeffrey Brantley and Wendy Millstine, go to http://psychcentral.com/lib/da...ing-your-angry-mind/]
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