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How to Stay Calm in the Face of Anger

Stillness in the Storms

Published
March 29, 2025
Duration
17:43
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Last updated
Oct 11, 2026

Discusses health, mental, religion, society, culture.

Summary

Why does a raised voice make you feel sick? Your nervous system is not overreacting. It learned that anger meant danger, and it is still doing its job.I was shouted at as a child, so some of it is that. Some of it is the person triggering something older. I get triggered by my daughter more than almost anybody, because I care and because I expected more. …

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Why does a raised voice make you feel sick? Your nervous system is not overreacting. It learned that anger meant danger, and it is still doing its job.I was shouted at as a child, so some of it is that. Some of it is the person triggering something older. I get triggered by my daughter more than almost anybody, because I care and because I expected more. Nobody owns the road, and yet everybody wants to park in front of their own house. Anger is a hammer. It can smash a thing up or build somethin

Themes

  • health
  • mental
  • religion
  • society
  • culture