How does a person come to understand the origins of his own anger?

I recommend that you reflect on the different injustices that have happened to you, starting in childhood, then moving to your adolescence, and then into adulthood.  Try to make a list of the persons and the injustices and then rate: a) how deep is each injustice on a 1-to-10 scale and how deeply hurt you are now by this injustice, again on a 1-to-10 scale.  Then look at this “forgiveness landscape” (which is the term I use for such an exercise in my book, The Forgiving Life).  Those injustices that are deep and remain very hurtful probably are at the heart of any abiding anger you have inside of you now.

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