ANGER AS MEDICINE (Special topics lecture with Irene Lyon)

Hi folks! Been doing these special topics lectures about once a month, and this one is all about the emotion anger and its utter importance for human health and well-being.

Here are some Questions/Topics I discuss in this chat:

00:00 - Welcome and introduction
03:30 - What is anger?
13:22 - Example of early aggression and life force energy
16:11 - How does anger get stored?
16:20 - Autoimmune diseases, chronic illness, MS, ALS
17:21 - Cancer & anger
18:31 - Emotional repression
22:08 - How to work with stored aggression (and other emotions)
25:23 - How fight and flight is stored when in freeze
27:51 - Survival stress
28:27 - What is trauma and Micro-traumas
29:46 - How does this work start?
31:20 - Cancer and connection to trauma
33:13 - Research and cancer/autoimmune - Gabor Mate
33:34 - Ace study
35:43 - Epigenetics
36:51 - Can older adults heal the stored aggression?
37:47 - Following your biological impulse
41:15 - Importance of getting Angry (Edgar Cayce)
43:56 - Thyroid
45:19 - Pro-active in our healing
46:37 - Being ‘human’ and feeling anger
48:25 - Stored anger and building capacity
50:31 - Orienting and importance of it when building capacity
51:00 - How anger can come out (parenting example)
52:05 - Mindfulness
53:42 - What might come up when we start to work on healing?
54:22 - Importance of connecting to the frustration & anger when releasing
57:25 - Restoring regulation
58:28 - Afraid the anger is too big & annihilation energy
1:01:38 - Kill energy (review and importance)
1:05:20 - Titration, capacity and feeling safe when letting anger out
1:06:49 - Stretching and movement
1:12:20 - Can TRE help to heal anger?
1:13:44 - Up & Down Movement Workshop

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Resources I mention during this video:

► What is Healthy Aggression
   • What is healthy aggression?  

► Gabor Mate - book - When The Body Says No
https://drgabormate.com/book/when-the...

► The Body Keeps the Score - by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=Body+keeps+...

► Functional freeze explained
https://irenelyon.com/2020/07/12/func...

► Origins of The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study:
  / origins-of-the-ace-study  

► Edgar Cayce
https://www.edgarcayce.org/edgar-cayc...

► Zack Bush
https://zachbushmd.com/

► Drop In Class
https://irenelyon.com/drop-in-class-1

► What the heck is orienting? (and why is it so important?!)
   • What the heck is orienting? (and why ...  

► What do you do when you have unresolved trauma? Two types of orienting
   • What do you do when you have unresolv...  

► This is when its ok to annihilate somebody - Seth Lyon
https://sethlyon.com/this-is-when-its...

► Healthy Aggression: The way to un-frustrate frustration
https://sethlyon.com/healthy-aggressi...

► 21-Day Nervous System Tune Up
https://irenelyon.com/tuneup/

► There is no "exercise" that heals trauma - Seth Lyon
https://sethlyon.com/no-exercise-heal...

► Up & Down Movement Workshop
https://www.updownworkshop.com/

► Healthy Nervous System Revolution FB Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nervo...

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