Transforming Anger

by Childre, Doc Lew

• ISBN13: 9781572243521
• ISBN10: 157224352X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc

Summary

Using HeartMath techniques, anger can be managed quickly and simply. After outlining how thoughts and feelings are stored in the nervous system, creating cellular triggers of irritation, frustration and anger, the ways of getting beyond these triggers are identified. Readers are taught to use a 60-second exercise that calms the mind, synchronizes the nervous system and increases internal coherence so that the options for dealing with anger can be clearly and quickly identified. For lasting change readers learn to depersonalize the actions of others, identify resistance to change and keep the practice going.

Author Biography

Doc Childre is the founder and chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Institute of HeartMath, the chairman of HeartMath LLC, and the chairman and CEO of Quantum Intech. He is the author of seven books and a consultant to business leaders, scientists, educators, and the entertainment industry on Intui-TechnologyR. His HeartMath System and proprietary heart rhythm technology for coherence building, called the Freeze-FramerR, has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, Prevention magazine, Psychology Today, Army Times, New York Newsday, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and on NBC's Today Show, ABC Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, CNN Headline News, CNN.com, as well as numerous other publications and television programs around the world He and his coauthor Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., wrote Overcoming Emotional Chaos. He also wrote The How-To-Book of Teen Self-Discovery and coauthored The HeartMath Solution and From Chaos to Coherence. Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., is a psychologist and author with thirty years of experience as an educator and business executive. She is President of Quantum Intech, overseeing strategic alliances and the expansion of HeartMath technologies worldwide. Dr. Rozman is a key spokesperson for the HeartMath system, giving media interviews and keynote addresses on heart intelligence and Intui-Technologies for executives, scientists, and health professionals throughout the world. She is the author of four books and is listed in Who's Who in California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Foreword	xiii
Why This Book Is Different	1	(8)
Managing Anger
Technology of the Heart
Intelligent Love
Why Are We So Mad?	9	(10)
The Environment of Anger
The Anger Habit
Expressions of Anger
Addressing Runaway Anger
What's the Heart Got to Do with It?	19	(12)
What Happens in Your Body When You Feel Anger?
A Fast Track for Turning Around Negatives
Wide-Angle Lens or Narrow Focus?
Transforming the Anger Habit
Stopping Emotional Triggers	31	(12)
Emotional Projections
Neutralizing a Projection
The Heart Feels Different
The Courage to Listen to Your Heart
Knowing Your Head from Your Heart	43	(12)
The Power to Change
The Mechanism of Emotional Histories
Changing the Old Information
Choosing Heart Intelligence
Building New Reference Points	55	(14)
How People Are Using Freeze-Frame
Using Freeze-Frame in Action
Slowing the Galloping Mind
Sustaining the Shift: Conserving Your Emotional Energy	69	(10)
How Do You Spend Your Emotional Energy?
Improving Your Bottom Line
Overpersonalization
The Power of Compassion	79	(14)
Anger as a Cover-Up
Heart Vulnerability
Finding Your Rhythm through Resistance
From Mechanical Reaction to Compassionate Response
Core Values
Transforming Anger at Home	93	(12)
What Triggers Your Anger at Home?
Breaking the Cycle of Anger
Taking ``Time-Out'' to the Heart
Authentic Communication
Intuitive Listening with Children
Transforming Anger in the Workplace	105	(14)
Developing Business Heart
Finding Your Rhythm under Pressure
Finding Your Rhythm in Communication Issues
It's All about Heart	119	(12)
The Care Shift
It's Heart Time
New Hope
appendix Using HeartMath Tools in Clinical Practice	131	(14)
Relaxation, Visualization, and Meditation
Adding the HeartMath Interventions
Tips for Using the Techniques in Therapeutic Environments
Learn More about HeartMath	145	(4)
References	149