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To dissipate it, the grass pulling example is good, and the breathing too. Breathing physically counteracts so many triggered situations. Anger is a clench, and breathing denies the clench the strength it needs to pull you along. Back to the grass....it's not the pulling of the grass i suspect but the contact with it. My anger dissipates for allowing tree branches to brush me as I walk beneath them. Immersing in water, same thing. Weeding a garden, moving dirt with my hands. It is like running a ground wire from my shorted out mind, into the ground, and letting the charge be absorbed there. Because my anger is secondary to something else, my concious mind is of little use in sorting it out. It isn't rational and doesn't respond to reason.

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8, you are such an delightfully insightful person. i look forward to your posts so much. i really believe in what you said about what you feel walking and touching the earth does. i think that the mind is a powerful thing and if we "imagine" things such as you described as working, they do. to imagine "feeling" the anger leave our bodies and be absorbed by something else could be a powerful tool. i do something very similar in a long bath...i soak and imagine all of the "yuckiness from the day" being washed away, then going down the drain...away from me. i think using this technique of which you speak is a very powerful tool for many emotions and feelings.

thank you for your post and your insight. your posts always appeal to me...your mind is brilliant i think. you see things that many don't, but the icing on the cake (that others can enjoy) is that you're able to transfer them from mind to words.