A 6-Step Meditation To Control Your Anger — And Transform It : Life Kit : NPR

How To Control Your Anger — With Meditation Enlarge this image J Studios/Getty Images J Studios/Getty Images Anger can be caustic: harming our bodies, compromising our judgement, inflaming public discourse. Sponsor Message Explore Life Kit This story comes from Life Kit, NPR's family of podcasts to help make life better — covering everything from exercise to raising kids to making friends. "Depending on our gender, class, race, and culture, we've gotten very different messages around anger," Owens, who also holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, explains. Despite this, his anger is a constant companion — something that, over time, he began to understand as a "secondary" emotion brought on by something buried inside him: "I looked deeper and began to see that anger was the bodyguard for my broken heartedness, for a fundamental hurt that I've been born into that's not aligned with my intentions to be free, safe and happy." Sponsor Message This realization helped Owens re-orient his rage and learn how to create space to forge a "responsive relationship" with anger and other feelings.