Healthy Mama Magazine SPECIAL RED Edition - Feb 2015 | Page 55

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LIFESTYLE

Expanding the

Envelope
Compassion
of

a Method for Beating Anger

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By Leo Babauta from Zen Habits

lmost every time we get angry, it’s because something
isn’t going our way. I’ve been practicing a method for
processing anger that I call Expanding the Envelope of
Compassion. Before we talk about the method, let’s look
at the progression of anger.

Here’s what happens:

• We want something a certain way.
• Other people or occasionally, the Universe doesn’t give
us that something in that certain way.
• We get mad. And sometimes we lose control.

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