Hi friends,
So it is day 10.
Day 10,
We are almost to the halfway point.
So today we're going to talk about anger.
Anger is a beast and frustration is a close second.
I know that everyone watching this has had a moment of anger at some point in their life.
And when we think about anger and how it relates to gratitude,
What I find so interesting about it is that they cannot coexist.
They cannot,
You cannot feel anger and gratitude at the same time.
I am a firm believer in being a whole human,
Meaning I believe in experiencing all of my emotions fully,
But also knowing how to calm myself,
Knowing how to cope,
Knowing how to manage my emotions,
Right?
Managing anxiety,
Anger,
Depression,
Whatever it may be.
I believe in experiencing it all fully,
But then also having the tools in my back pocket to be able to manage,
Right?
So today's journal prompt,
I want you to dig into a moment of anger,
Whether it was recently or one from the past that you just happened to remember,
Or if you're even dealing with a level of frustration right now,
I want you to think about that moment and then I want you to describe it on paper and describe what about it made you angry,
Who was there,
Be as descriptive as possible because when we find the language to describe the experiences and the situations that we go through,
We're able to more easily let go,
Process and move forward.
So be as detailed as possible when you're describing this moment.
From that point,
I want you to ask yourself,
Was this the appropriate response?
However you responded,
If you responded out of anger,
If you were calm about it,
But you were still angry,
How did you respond and was it the appropriate response to the experience or the situation?
And then the last step or the third step,
I want you to then ask yourself,
How are you going to move forward,
Right?
What is your next step?
Not the next 10 steps,
Not the next five.
What is your next step?
What did you do after this moment?
Or what will you do if it again is a present moment?
What will you do to move forward from this moment?
I don't want you to sit in your response and however you responded when you were angry.
I don't want you to,
You know,
Feel guilty.
I don't want you to worry even about how you may have responded,
Whether it was a tantrum or you cursed someone out.
Like I don't want you to worry about that because it is honestly okay to lose your cool every now and then.
The goal here is to find inner peace,
Which is gratitude,
Right?
The goal here is to find healthier,
Kinder,
Um,
And the best possible ways to move forward in a situation.
You're going to lose your cool.
You're going to write this journal prompt and then maybe a few weeks later,
Shoot,
Maybe even tomorrow,
You end up losing your cool again.
It's okay.
It's part of learning.
It's part of growing.
It's part of practicing what it takes to get you to be at inner peace,
Which again,
Heavily correlates with gratitude.
And one of the tactics you can use is after you're in this moment of processing and clarity is thinking of things that make you grateful,
Simply just to calm you down,
Simply to help you find your grounding in your inner peace all over again.
But I want you to describe a moment of anger and then I want you to ask yourself if it was the appropriate response,
However you responded.
Third,
I want you to consider your next step.
What is your next step from this point?
What is your next step after you,
Um,
Have a little bit more clarity around the situation that you're angry about?
And then finally,
Don't worry,
Don't dwell on it.
Write down three things that,
Or a list of things that you can come back to,
To calm yourself if you,
When you ever have a moment of anger and frustration ever again.
Gratitude is always about that inner peace.
It's about coming back to yourself.
It's about the bigger picture.
And I want you to kind of focus on that moment of anger and then figure out how it is you can use gratitude to bring you back to you,
Bring you home to yourself.
So with that,
I will see you tomorrow.
