Daily Meditations for Calming Your Angry Mind: Mindfulness Practices to Free Yourself from Anger

by Jeffrey Brantley, Wendy Millstine

Leading mindfulness expert and author of Calming Your Anxious Mind, Jeffrey Brantley, MD, offers daily mindfulness-based meditations to help you gain control of your emotional reactions, improve your relationships, and cultivate peace, balance, and well-being in your life. Anger is an intense emotion that everyone deals with, but when feelings of anger spiral out of control they can get in the way of living a full and happy life. If you struggle with intense irritability or angry outbursts, you may feel like your reactions are beyond your control. But this simply isn’t true—you, and only you, have the power to change your life. You just need to be shown the way. In Daily Meditations for Calming Your Angry Mind , Brantley details three different paths—or approaches—based in mindfulness and meditative perspectives, that you can choose from to take control of your anger, and your life. First, you’ll learn to disengage from your anger by pausing to be mindful when anger is happening. Second, you’ll discover ways to cool your anger using meditative practices to nurture kindness and compassion towards yourself and others. And third, you’ll find tips for practicing mindfulness to transform your understanding and realize your anger is not an identity, a defect, or a permanent condition. These three practical and easy-to-use approaches to anger management have a strong basis in both ancient and modern traditions. With this book as your guide, you can finally overcome the tumultuous thoughts, feelings, and reactions that have been holding you back in life.

Genres: Self Help

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2015

About the author

Jeffrey Brantley, MD, DFAPA, has practiced mindfulness meditation for over thirty years, and his work in medicine and psychiatry has emphasized mindfulness and mindfulness-based interventions to promote individual health and well-being. He is a founding faculty member of Duke Integrative Medicine, and founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine in 1998. Brantley is the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind and coauthor of the Five Good Minutes series and Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind.

Reviews

[Kristina]

First, let me say THANK You to Jeffrey Brantley and Goodreads for the opportunity to read this book. I have never thought of picking up a book like this, and I am sooo very glad I did!

I very much appreciated this information and found some great strategies for dealing with angry people. The book showed me that small changes can lead to big improvement, that people really can choose to take control of their anger and learn how to “cool” it. We can take steps to change our methods of dealing more directly with people, and have peace and calm in our lives. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with anger issues themselves or dealing with someone who is. I’ll be reading this one again.

[Shannon]

So glad that I was able to read this book by being a Goodreads First Reader Winner. It is such a wonderful and helpful book that I know I'm going to find myself reading it over and over again. This book was very much needed in my life and I am very thankful that I could get to read it. I do recommend this book to anyone who is struggling with being angry, or restless even. This book really helped me and I want it to help others as well.

[Valerie]

This book is a quick guide for coping with anger and the impact it has on your body. The authors utilize some ideas related to meditation for helping to cope with that strong emotion.

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Disclaimer: I was awarded this book in a Goodreads giveaway. While I did not pay for the book, the opinions expressed in this book are strictly my own.

[Alice]

I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads . I enjoyed reading this book .I will be looking for more books from the author in the future , Great book !!