Dr. Gabor Maté on How to Process Anger and Rage | The Tim Ferriss Show
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Neuroscientist Yak Panksepp highlights the importance of healthy anger in protecting boundaries and the dangers of suppressed childhood rage resurfacing in adulthood. Processing rage effectively involves experiencing it fully, recognizing, investigating, and nurturing suppressed emotions, as endorsed by spiritual teacher Tara Brach.
Insights
- Unprocessed childhood rage can resurface explosively in adulthood if not properly addressed, intensifying and becoming uncontrollable.
- Processing rage effectively involves experiencing it fully in the body, recognizing, allowing, investigating, and nurturing suppressed emotions, as recommended by spiritual teacher Tara Brach, to prevent uncontrollable outbursts triggered by past trauma.
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Recent questions
What are the effects of suppressed childhood rage?
Explosive resurfacing in adulthood.
How can one effectively process rage?
Experience fully, recognize, allow, investigate, nurture.
What brain systems are shared with mammals according to Yak Panksepp?
Rage as response to boundary transgression.
Why is healthy anger important?
Protects boundaries, dissipates in the moment.
What happens when unprocessed rage is triggered by past trauma?
Intensifies, magnifies, becomes uncontrollable.
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