Doug;    

    Thanks so much for your insights. I always enjoy reading your blog. Based on you urging I decided to write in.

  I often find myself being dragged into many negative states. Everything from the way other people drive, to my exasperation at the way my teenage sons don?t do what I have asked them to do a hundred times. Just like everyone else on the planet it just doesn?t go like it?s supposed to. I know the person who suffers most in these situations is me. I try and catch myself and see only I can control my emotions and find the lesson in these everyday events.

  It?s  much easier  to see in other people. I had a business partner who was my best friend when we started the business, and later changed into a guy I dreaded to see. He owned two other businesses and was gone every other week. I looked forward to the weeks he was away. He developed a huge superiority complex and felt it was his duty to correct everyone on everything many times a day. (Be resonable see it my way!)  He would micro manage all of the employees till they would finally leave. He was upset and on fire most days. I was so glad I did not have to wake up in his skin.

  Thru the teachings of Guy I used these confrontations to see myself in him and tried not to react buy letting myself become part of the drama. I found I could only control my self and change my own perspective, thoughts and emotions.

 I too am trying to dig my self out of prison one spoonful at a time. I know that when I feel that violence come up inside of me it is just a lesson to be learned. God holding up the mirror so I can see myself. Most of the time it's not as soon as it needs to be but  I'm working on it.

  See you in June    Bill