About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Exercise 1: Anger Monitoring
Exercise 2: Identifying ‘Shoulds’
Exercise 3: Finding Alternatives to ‘Shoulds’
Exercise 4: Recognising the Arbitrariness and Silliness of Anger
Exercise 5: Finding Humour
Exercise 6: Mea Culpa — Apologising for Your Anger
Exercise 7: Explaining the Origin of Your ‘Shoulds’
Exercise 8: Explaining the Origin of Someone Else’s ‘Shoulds’
Exercise 9: Cultivating Gratitude
Exercise 10: Overcoming the Need for Fairness
Exercise 11: What Went Well Today?
Exercise 12: Identifying the Costs of Your Anger
Exercise 13: Identifying How Anger Interferes With Problem-Solving
in Real Situations
Exercise 14: Nonuniversality of Ethics — Differences in law
Exercise 15: Nonuniversality of Ethics — the Case of Killing
Exercise 16: The Ugliness of Other People’s Anger
Exercise 17: The Ugliness of Your Own Anger
Exercise 18: Anger in Situations Beyond Your Control
Exercise 19: Your Own Anger in Situations Beyond Your Control
Exercise 20: Mindfulness — Living in The Moment
Exercise 21: Does the Scene Really Matter? Using the Memoirs Test
Exercise 22: Using a Responsibility Pie
Exercise 23: Change Your Attempts to Influence Those Around You
Exercise 24: In Other People’s Words
Exercise 25: Getting Into the Skin of the Other Person
Exercise 26: Compassion Visualisation
Exercise 27: Practising Patience
Exercise 28: Understanding Other People’s Interests and Activities
Exercise 29: Identifying With Both Sides
Exercise 30: The Egocentricity of Anger
Exercise 31: Anger as Frustrated Craving
Exercise 32: Being Servile for One Hour
Exercise 33: See Miscreants as Fascinating or Humorous Machines
Exercise 34: Look After the State of Your Organism
Exercise 35: Who Do You Wish To Become?