All of these tasks will help you gain a better understanding of strategic nonviolence so that you can expertly execute it. Develop self mastery. Strategic nonviolence demands much of its soldiers. You will want to develop your inner-strength and selflessness so you can maintain nonviolent discipline regardless of the repression you face. Inner discipline can be strengthened through meditation, prayer, visualizing how you will respond to difficult situations, or other methods that will help you gain the discipline necessary to give others unconditional respect, while also developing the fearlessness necessary to endure sacrifices for the animals.
Anger often causes people to break nonviolent discipline.
Notice what makes you angry and analyze why it makes you angry. At the root of all anger is the desire to control someone. If you are angy at yourself, change your offending behavior. If others are the source of your anger, recognize you only have control over your own actions and that no one should have the power to reduce you to anger or hostility. Discipline yourself to rise above such anger and hostility.