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The Power of Healthy Anger



The Power of Healthy Anger

So there was a great neuroscientist his name was Yak Panksev who tragically died a few years ago of cancer and he distinguished a number of brain systems that we share with other mammals. They include then something he calls grief and panic then fear lust seeking play and rage. These are all brain systems that we have. They’re all necessary for mamalian life. They’re all necessary. Now the by rage he means the anger that arises when our boundaries are being transgressed. If I were to infringe on your boundaries, either physically or emotionally, the healthy response for you is to mount an anger response. No, get out. Stay away. That’s healthy. Healthy anger is in the moment. It protects your boundaries and then it’s gone. It’s not necessary anymore. However, if your boundaries were infringed as a child, but you could not express it, it doesn’t disappear. It gets suppressed. It becomes almost like a volcano that’s gurgling and and and and bubbling inside you.

Understanding healthy anger as a signal for boundary protection is essential for emotional well-being. Learn why these primal responses are not just instinctual but crucial for mammalian life.

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  4. @janetpattison8474 on

    Any negative emotion is an act of self-harm. detachment is the key to not creating more karma for ourselves. If someone antagonizes, criticizes, ridicules, or attacks, detachment is the key. I've been experimenting for years with this principle, & it's more powerful than you'd believe. Including when being attacked physically, & the rapist was trying to pull my clothes off. I didn't react. I was detached & chanted the sacred word HU and the attacker panicked & ran away. This powerful word HU is on many YouTube channels.

  6. @Moa-u7f on

    Why would he call these brain systems, rather than emotions or reactions or survival instincts? How are these brain systems?

  7. @Grammapama on

    Anger/rage is not the typical mammalian female response if she just gave birth and needs to protect a child. If a female needs the protection of a male against a superior force then she will do everything possible to placate the protector with any means until the protector becomes a threat. Boundaries don’t matter. Observational skill and cunning matters.

  8. @greenscarab2 on

    So true. I know that first hand from my mom always stopping me from expressing myself. It took years to work on my anger. Now i get mad and forget unless i get really angry then the recovery time is a few days. They say your blood boils when you get mad.

  10. @borivojpopovic9488 on

    Boundary transgression like cirumscision? Creates a life long trauma, which makes one more susceptible to manipulation later on. Vladeta Jerotic gave a very detailed analysis of that.

  13. @413smr on

    The ultra religious "Christians" were triggered by John's remark. If you know U.S. Southern evangelicals you wouldn't be surprised. I cringed when he apologized.

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