All the Rage

Leading psychologists and meditation teachers explain how mindfulness can help us work with our anger--and ultimately transform it into compassion.. Anger. For all of us its a familiar feelingjaw clenching face flushing hands shaking. We feel it for rational and irrational reasons on a personal and on a global level. If we know how to handle our anger skillfully it is an effective tool for helping us recognize that a situation needs to change and for providing the energy to create that change. Yet more often anger is destructiveand in its grip we hurt ourselves and those around us.. In recent years scientists have discovered that mindfulness practice can reduce stress improve mood and enhance our sense of well-being. It also offers us a way of dealing with strong emotions like anger. This anthology offers a Buddhist perspective on how we can better work with anger and ultimately transform it into compassion with insight and practices from a variety of contributors including Thich Nhat Hanh Sharon Salzberg Sylvia Boorstein Carolyn Gimian Tara Bennett-Goleman Pat Enkyo OHara Jules Shuzen Harris Christina Feldman Mark Epstein Ezra Bayda Judith Toy Noah Levine Judy Lief Norman Fischer Jack Kornfield Stan Goldberg Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Dzigar Kongtrl and many others.