Photo by Yogendra Singh  on Unsplash  Life has a way of knocking us  flat at times -  but for some, that's not just metaphor.   Recently my friend Michele told me a story about just that: being knocked flat in a violent encounter during a broom ball match. As she was scrambling after the ball, a member of the opposing team crashed into her hockey style, tripping her  and knocking her flat on the ice. She was  left with  with painful bruises on her side. She experienced a wave of intense anger flow through her. She "saw red",  and  noticed an impulse to strike back at her aggressor, whom she was sure made the hit intentionally. Her natural  impulse  to fight or flee  was fully online, "completely out of the ordinary", as she says.   But what really made her story memorable was what she did - and didn't do- next. After the hit,  she paused and said out loud, "I am experiencing rage right now!" She watched her rage- and though...