What You Will Learn in this Chapter

  • To identify what contributes to anger on a physical and psychological level.

  • To assess your own level of anger using the hostility scale.

  • To explain the relationship between anger, Type A personality, and cardiac disease.

  • To practice using reframing strategies to defuse anger.

  • To describe the value of forgiveness for stress reduction.

Have you experienced times when you were quick to anger, either in the workplace or at home, as if your fuse had become significantly shorter? Unless you are a yogi master and have achieved perfect balance and enlightenment, of course you have. All of us have had periods when we were more irritable and less tolerant. Have you noticed that there is a direct relationship between these ...

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