Report 3

Letitia Lujanwas driving on the highway when a car cut her off. She let it go until the same car cut her off again. Since it had happened twice, she thought perh aps the driver's undertakings were intentional (Leticia's cognitive domain). She then became frustrated (affective domain) and profanity instantaneously transpired (sensorimotor domain). This behavior resulted from her frustration of thinking that this driver had purposefully been curtailing her space and violating her rights on the road. Because of her profane verbal "mutterances"(as she describes it) she was shocked and disappointed at her behavior and wondered if she had let this incident get the bet ter of her.

Kendall Matsuwas stuck driving behind an old man who was driving 40 miles an hour on the highway and when he tried to sp eed up to overtake him, the man cut him off. "At that moment", he states, "I let my emotions get the best of me(affective domain)". I cut back into the middle lane, pulled up alongside him and yelled ...'What the f**k are you trying to do, you f**king i diot?!!'(sensorimotor domain)". This incident was thought of as a violation because he states, "That person is just going slow because he knows I'm late to get somewhere and he's just doing it to piss me off(cognitive domain)".

All three domains are evident in the incidents Leticia and Kendall had. They chose to judge their incidents as violations. They chose to feel frustration and anger and they chose to respond profanely and, in Kendall's case, slightly violently. We all hav e the power to choose how to feel, judge, and act. We have the power to view encounters anyway we want, wether it be angry, sad, frustrated, impatient, jeolous, invaded, happy, compassionate, patient or forgiving. It's our choice.

"The Master sees things as they are without trying to control them. She let's them go their own way and resides at the center of the circle" Lao-Tzu