Calming Your Angry Mind, Jeffrey Brantley, MD
Calming Your Angry Mind, Jeffrey Brantley, MD
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Calming Your Angry Mind
How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anger and Bring Peace to Your Life

Author: Jeffrey Brantley, MD, Barbara L. Fredrickson

Narrator: William Sarris

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/30/2020


Synopsis

Anger is a natural emotion—and a part of what makes us human. But when you lose control of your anger, it can get in the way of meaningful relationships, successful careers, and ultimately, feelings of happiness and enjoyment.

In this highly anticipated book, renowned mindfulness expert and author of Calming Your Anxious Mind Jeff Brantley offers a breakthrough approach using mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and compassion practices to help you better handle the anger, fear, and hostile emotions that can wreak havoc at home, work, and in relationships. In addition, you will also learn important self-awareness skills to help you stop overreacting and improve communication with others.

While other self-help books focus on traditional anger management, Brantley offers solutions that give you personal control over the experience of anger in your life. In this book, you'll discover the three major meditative approaches to soothing anger: stabilizing mind and body through concentrating your attention mindfully; using compassionate attention and reflection to disarm the energy of your anger; and learning to use wise understanding about the impermanent and "conditioned" nature of your angry reactions in order to diminish your vulnerability to anger's power.


About Jeffrey Brantley, MD

Jeffrey Brantley, MD, is professor emeritus in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at Duke University Medical Center. He is founder and former director of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program at Duke Integrative Medicine. He has represented the Duke MBSR program in numerous radio, television, and print interviews. He is author of Calming Your Anxious Mind, and coauthor of the Five Good Minutes series.


Reviews

The book mainly discusses what anger is and the different causes of it and how mindfully to approach them. That anger is not you but is temporary condition that depends/ is composed of different feelings, like a cloud needing different conditions in order to appear. The book offers variety of short......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

I was given this book in exchange for an honest review. This was a very helpful and informative book. I have used some of the exercises already with my son, who has anger issues. I would recommend this to someone who has an anger problem.......more

Goodreads review by Wendy

3.5 - I was easily distracted while listening to the book. I probably would have gotten more out of it by reading the Book instead.......more