Using simple Buddhist principles and applying them in a way that is easy for non-Buddhists to understand, Scheff has created an interactive book that helps readers change perspective, step by step, so that they can replace the Anger in their lives with a newfound happiness.
Using simple Buddhist principles and applying them.
Anger is in the eyes of the beholder.
Anger is toxic.
Ask yourself: Do I really want to be angry? Leonard Scheff, a trial attorney who used Anger to fuel his courtroom persona, realized the answer had to be no.
Get calm.
Don\'t get mad.
By the end, as the reader continues to observe and fill in the exercises honestly, it won\'t matter who takes that Parking space-only you can make yourself angry.
He shows how to laugh at ourselves-a powerful early step in changing angry behavior.
Based on the successful Anger management program Scheff created, The Cow in the Parking Lot shows how Anger is based on unmet demands, and introduces the four most common types-Important and Reasonable (you want love from your partner)
Reasonable but Unimportant (you didn\'t get that seat in the restaurant window)
Irrational (you want respect from a stranger); and the Impossible (you want someone to fix everything wrong in your life).
Scheff and Edmiston show how, once we identify our real unmet demands we can dissolve the anger; how, once we understand our buttons, we can change what happens when they\'re pushed.
What really changed? You-your perspective.
Using simple Buddhist principles and applying them in a way that is easy for non-Buddhists to understand and put into practice, Scheff and Edmiston have created an interactive book that helps readers change perspective, step by step, so that they can replace the Anger in their lives with a newfound happiness.
The Anger dissolves into bemusement.
But now imagine that instead of another driver, a cow has lumbered into that Parking space and settled down.
Easy to imagine the rage.
His transformation can be summarized in a simple parable: Imagine you are circling a crowded Parking lot when, just as you spot a space, another driver races ahead and takes it.
That and his intense study of Buddhism and meditation changed him.
Leonard Scheff, a trial attorney, once used Anger to fuel his court persona, until he came to realize just how poisonous Anger is.
We\'re a society that is swimming in anger, always about to snap.
Professionally angry TV and radio commentators.
Domestic violence.
Road rage.
Using simple Buddhist principles and applying them in a way that is easy for non-Buddhists to understand, Scheff has created an interactive book that helps readers change perspective, step by step, so that they can replace the Anger in their lives with a newfound happiness
