Mindful Anger Management I've just sent a letter inviting the Dalai Lama to Kansas City to help with interfaith peace and reconciliation dialogue, which is being handcarried along with others by a Missouri delegation to Dharamsala, India, where he lives. Seems to me that public discussion about body cameras and technology ain't gonna quite do it regarding endemic racism and brutality in our system, conditioned by fear, aggression, and inequality. I believe that inner tools and technology are also needed and available, and could fairly swiftly be brought to bear. We Buddhist teachers and practitioners, trainers and “higher” educators have a well-researched, tried-and-true ages-old technique for helping an individual intervene between stimulus and response in the automatic reaction system (and amygdala response) of the police-person on the street when challenged. It’s called Mindful Anger Management— or more broadly, Mindful Re activity Training— and could easily be instituted widely to help ease this crisis and progress together in our stricken society.
This kind of mindful awareness training doesn't slow down your reaction time, but actually speeds up and sharpens mental processing so one can actually “count to ten before you hit back,” as my Granny used to tell me, or “think before you act” as my Dad used to intone like a mantra. Article Source - http://askthelama.com/post/105705596388/mindfulanger-management
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