Compassion Power

06/19/2026

Emotional pollution is the indiscriminate spread of aggressive emotions, disregarding their effects on others - the psychological equivalent tof secondary smoke and roadside litter. Our choice is to choke on the pollution or crowd it out with compassion, kindness, appreciation.

06/17/2026

Anger cannot be overcome with focus on what makes you angry or resentful. More powerful than triggers of anger and resentment are unconscious dynamics, triggered by discomfort or distress. The cure lies in building new conditioned responses.

Anger treatment reconditions that emotional system to automatically motivate improvement, rather than anger.

06/15/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202606/chronic-anger-makes-life-seem-like-mere-survival

Anger does not necessarily turn to hate, but the transformation is all too common. Hate is an emotional virus that spreads rapidly and virulently.

06/12/2026

Emotional abuse is deliberately making loved ones feel afraid or bad about themselves so they’ll do what the abuser wants. It takes will and practice to reverse the attitudes and emotional habits that cause emotional abuse.

Emotional abuse treatment in 50 Webinars and exercises that reduce anger and resentment, while increasing compassion.

06/10/2026

In the formation of emotional bonds (falling in love) we make an implicit promise that we’ll care about each other’s well-being and never intentionally hurt each other. When either promise is broken, we feel betrayed. Intimate betrayal can wear the face of infidelity, deceit, financial manipulation, chronic resentment, anger, or abuse. See Living & Loving after Betrayal:

Betrayal in close relationships takes many forms. This course heals all wounds.

06/07/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202411/emotion-and-meaning-in-the-social-world

Intense emotions make it impossible to read other people's emotions with any accuracy. When our own internal experience is strong, we merely project it onto others.

06/03/2026

When emotionally aroused, we have two voices in our heads. The first comes from the toddler brain - self-obsessed, impulsive, blaming, avoiding. The second comes from the adult brain - rational, fair, valuing, able to see other perspectives.

05/31/2026

Adrenaline creates temporary energy and confidence. Inhibitions require adrenaline to overcome. Once an inhibition threshold is crossed, we’re likely to escalate violations as more adrenaline is required to get the same level of energy and confidence.

Due to the adrenaline effect, if you go off your diet once, you’re likely to do it again. If you lie once, you’re likely to keep lying. If abusive once, you’re likely to continue abusing.

05/29/2026

Narrow and rigid perspectives make us resentful, angry, or depressed and tend to cause extreme reactions in ourselves and others. They can drive us mad. Widening perspectives puts us in touch with deeper values and makes us smarter, happier, and healthier.

05/24/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-of-entitlement/202411/how-to-be-open-to-interest-enjoyment-and-appreciation

Whichever emotions we experience the most become habituated, the default state. Something unusual has to happen to switch from avoid to approach motivations, and vice versa.