Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.

When things don't go well in our lives, we sometimes take out our frustration on the people closest to us when it's not their fault. This creates a problem in the relationship with them that wasn't there in the first place,

adding one more issue to the list of things that aren't going well.

That's why it's important to compartmentalize.

Your frustration with car trouble does not need to cause friction between you and your children for instance, nor is it

okay to allow the way your boss treats you to change the way you treat your spouse

for example. If you don't heal from what hurt you, then you end up bleeding on people who didn't cut you.

It's not fair to them and it's not fair to you.

It's mind-boggling to me that while most of us like being in control, the only thing we actually

can control is the one thing we don't.

Our composure.

When people come over for the holidays, at least one of the guests will likely say something offensive.

Another might accidentally break a valuable possession of yours.

The neighbor's dog will bark all through dinner.

Yet the house will smell amazing from pies in the oven.

You will keep warm by the fireplace.

And there is a very good chance someone will either drink too much,

start talking politics, pick a fight, or be passive

aggressive enough to make snide comments about your house, the food, the problem with the world

today is people like you or something along those lines.

That scenario is just a snapshot of life and all the people in it.

Although drama is all around us, we don't have to allow the external chaos create disturbances within.

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