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Speaker 1: Everyone. It's Color Talichy for this week's Mojo Monday. So

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Speaker 1: today I want to talk about an emotion that is

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Speaker 1: incredibly powerful and one which we often struggle with, and

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Speaker 1: that is anger. Anger is not a choice. Aggression is

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Speaker 1: so feeling angry about something or someone is not a

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Speaker 1: sign that you're failing it being calm or balanced. Anger

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Speaker 1: is a built in, automatic human emotion, just like other emotions.

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Speaker 1: It arrives before you've even had a chance to think,

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Speaker 1: so you don't choose anger, it just shows up. And

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Speaker 1: the Stoics talked about anger a lot. So Marcus Aurelius

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Speaker 1: wrote how much more grievous are the consequences of anger

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Speaker 1: than the causes of it? So what he is saying

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Speaker 1: is that what anger makes us do usually creates far

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Speaker 1: more damage than what originally triggered the anger. So what

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Speaker 1: we do with anger can create much bigger consequences than

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Speaker 1: the anger itself. Not because it's that anger that is bad,

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Speaker 1: but because it's our reaction to it that con spiral

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Speaker 1: into something that we never intended. I think we've probably

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Speaker 1: all been there. So harsh words, slam doors, hurt feelings,

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Speaker 1: damage trust. A lot of the time we have these

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Speaker 1: feelings of regret of the things that we did from

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Speaker 1: the anger. So anger is like a signal. Aggression is

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Speaker 1: the strategy, and strategies can change with intention, with self

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Speaker 1: awareness that you can control your actions even when anger

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Speaker 1: shows up. And our anger is also a mobilizing emotion.

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Speaker 1: It wants us to move, and I think this is

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Speaker 1: really important to understand. We feel it in our bodies.

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Speaker 1: It's that fight flight or fhreeze. It's that fight part

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Speaker 1: of that stress response. And when you fight, you've got

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Speaker 1: to move, and sometimes that movement is powerful and even necessary.

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Speaker 1: So you think about Greta Thornberg. Her anger about environmental

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Speaker 1: injustice didn't make her aggressive, but it made her clear,

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Speaker 1: It made her courageous, and it helped her become one

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Speaker 1: of the strongest voices for change in her generation. So

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Speaker 1: her anger was fuel for positive action. So that's one

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Speaker 1: face of anger. It can be helpful. It can have

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Speaker 1: values behind it, So it's a value driven kind of

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Speaker 1: mobilizing emotion. It's a side that protects what matters. It's

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Speaker 1: a side that says, this is not okay, and I

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Speaker 1: have to do something. So anger can point us towards

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Speaker 1: our values and the places where change is needed and

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Speaker 1: there's always something that you care about on the other

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Speaker 1: side of anger. But of course we know anger also

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Speaker 1: has a shadow site. So this is a side where

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Speaker 1: emotions surge, where we act like we don't have a choice,

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Speaker 1: and that's where we can lose control of what we do.

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Speaker 1: That's the side where aggression comes in. That's the yelling,

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Speaker 1: the snapping, the shutting down, the stuff that we can't

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Speaker 1: take back, And that's the anger that Marcus Aurelius was

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Speaker 1: talking about, the kind where the consequences are far more

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Speaker 1: painful than the moment that triggered it. So here's the

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Speaker 1: middle ground. It's kind of the human ground. Anger itself

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Speaker 1: is not the problem. It's what we do that matters.

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Speaker 1: So we don't need to get rid of the anger.

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Speaker 1: The anger is normal. It's just a normal human emotion,

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Speaker 1: and some of us feel it more intensely than others.

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Speaker 1: But we just need to widen that space between anger

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Speaker 1: and action. So even a tiny pause can shift everything.

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Speaker 1: Taking a deep breath, counting backwards from ten, walking away,

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Speaker 1: these are strategies that can widen that space between the

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Speaker 1: feeling and the action. Because anger can be a spotlight,

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Speaker 1: it can be a source of clarity and courage, or

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Speaker 1: it can be a complete wildfire, so damaging everything in

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Speaker 1: its path. The feeling isn't the choice, the behavior is.

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Speaker 1: So this week, see if you can simply notice the

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Speaker 1: moment that anger arrives. Just notice it, and you can

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Speaker 1: ask yourself, what do I care about in this situation

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Speaker 1: and maybe take a deep breath, count backwards from ten.

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Speaker 1: Create a space between that feeling of anger and what

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Speaker 1: you do next, because that is going to widen, that

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Speaker 1: space where the power is, where you have a choice,

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Speaker 1: and then that space that's where you have strength. So

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Speaker 1: thanks everyone, thanks for listening. I hope you all have

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Speaker 1: a great week and I will catch you next week.

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Speaker 1: Sa