Without this time, I've noticed I become distracted or even feel physically ill. It's amazing how simply giving myself permission to feel has relaxed me, at times. A technique I read about and tried is to sit quietly and imagine angry thoughts as train cars going by as you watch-each are connected, the entire line leading to a state of heart at which you'd just as soon not arrive. Another facet of this approach is to remind yourself, continually if necessary, that this anger is improperly being viewed as your anger. You are taking possession of it.
Right view is instead to see strong emotions of any kind as one views the weather.
Of course not. The conditions for snow occur outside of your control or choice, and simply must be dealt with until they pass-or until you pass through their vicinity. How stupid, I thought. What's usually happening before I get angry is that someone else has been rude, cruel or neglectful of me. Someone is thoughtless or malicious toward me-these are the things that make me angry.