
Anger, Boundaries and Safety

Or you could try a two-minute obsession stomp circle. Start walking in a circle, breathe, and begin to say your inner obsessive thoughts out loud. Talk louder, stomp your feet down as you walk, breathe and let your energy increase! Make it bigger and bigger – make it almost outrageous! Keep going to the point where the energy shifts – sometimes
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Aggress energy Aggress energy is a passionate life force energy that enables us to step forward in our own behalf in a bold and energetic manner.
Joann S. Peterson • Anger, Boundaries and Safety
Find an old towel. Take your socks off and plant your feet. Now twist the towel to make it like a rope, and repeat the phrase ‘It’s mine!’ as you tighten the twist as much as you can. When you are finished, take a moment to notice how you feel in your body.
Joann S. Peterson • Anger, Boundaries and Safety
Anger Anger is a natural, ‘secondary’ feeling that emerges in response to frustration, hurt, fear, loss or sadness.
Joann S. Peterson • Anger, Boundaries and Safety
Boundaries are related to self-definition, at an energetic, body and psychological level, in the realm of human contact. A boundary is the felt energetic experience in the arena of human contact where one individual ends and engagement with another begins.
Joann S. Peterson • Anger, Boundaries and Safety
Suppression – one of the possible styles of dealing with anger mentioned above – is to restrain, subdue and stop expression. Containment, on the other hand, is to hold within and to keep within limits, thus allowing the possibility of safe and responsible anger expression at an appropriate time and place. The roots of suppression are in the belief
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Intention Permission Boundary limits Form Focus Energy
Joann S. Peterson • Anger, Boundaries and Safety
the feeling of anger becomes entangled in our minds with the behaviours of violence.
Joann S. Peterson • Anger, Boundaries and Safety
Each time a child challenges the parent, the adult once again squats down to the child’s eye level and with undivided attention repeats the safety behaviour, reminding the child of appropriate and inappropriate ways to be angry. This is discipline. The goal of discipline is learning; punishment is more focused on ‘getting even’ or retribution.
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