“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” — Lucius Seneca The power of the pause is that it gives your nervous system time to settle and your thinking brain time to come back online. When we pause, we reconnect with our heart, our values, and the quiet wisdom in the body. Without that pause, anger hijacks us from the most reactive part of the brain. Everything feels urgent, dramatic, and absolute, as if it is the end of the world, even when it is not. Delay does not mean suppression. It means cr