{"id":33865,"date":"2019-07-08T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=33865"},"modified":"2019-07-08T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T20:00:56","slug":"advice-from-books-2-4-3-3-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/advice-from-books-2-4-3-3-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #12: Letting go of anger and resentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is one of four newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other three are the <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/subscribe-to-email-list\/\">Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/wimb\/\">What&#8217;s in my bag?<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this issue of Book Freak, my Cool Tools colleague Claudia Dawson offers three excerpts from books she\u2019s read on letting go of anger and resentment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deactivate your emotional buttons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we give others the power to push our emotional buttons, we become their slaves, often without realizing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HeatherAsh Amara, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LK8SZZ\">Warrior Goddess Training<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Remembered that life is impermanent<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIf we really understood and remembered that life was impermanent, we would do everything we could to make the other person happy right here and right now. If we spend twenty-four hours being angry at our beloved, it is because we are ignorant of impermanence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thich Nhat Hanh, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2XCcjnP\">Taming the Tiger Within<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You must have clarity to create<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cAnger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but they\u2019re like poison to the filmmaker or artist. They\u2019re like a vise grip on creativity. If you\u2019re in that grip, you can hardly get out of bed, much less experience the flow of creativity and ideas. You must have clarity to create. You have to be able to catch ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Lynch, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/30johEM\">Catching the Big Fish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Claudia Dawson offers three excerpts from books she\u2019s read on letting go of anger and resentment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33870,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33865\/revisions\/33870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}