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Hello,
My name is James and I currently live in North Idaho with my wife and 2 children. I retired from the Army in 2012 after 20 years of service and I am now a full time student at Kaplan University and I work at the local elementary school as a custodian in the evenings. I have really learned a lot over the past couple of years about taking care of my health, the mind-body connection, and how to achieve a sense of balance in my health and my life. My hobbies include snowboarding and hunting in the winter and motorcycles and fishing in the summer.
The experience I had with a Journey on Relaxation exercise turned out to be quite comical to me. I was getting ready to put on my headphones and listen to the exercise but decided to use the bathroom first. When I flushed I saw that the toilet was plugged so I knocked on my 12 year old daughter's bedroom door and asked if she clogged it. She told me she did clog the toilet so I told her I wanted her to get a plunger and unclog the toilet. She went downstairs and told my wife that she "couldn't" unclog a toilet and for whatever reason my wife decided to defend her decision and tell me that unclogging a toilet was something an adult should do and it would be demeaning to have a 12 year old girl do it. ....WHAT!...I grabbed the plunger from the bathroom and gave my almost teenage daughter a class on how to unclog a toilet and I will tell you that I was not pleased that I was the "bad guy" in this scenario for wanting my daughter to take responsibility for something that she messed up. I finally get back upstairs and close the bedroom door to listen to the Journey on Relaxation and I can feel my heart beating rapidly, my blood pressure was up, and all I can concentrate on is the fact that I became the bad guy because my daughter clogged the toilet. GRRRRRRR!!!! So I listened to the exercise and by the end of it I was nice and calm and had a good laugh about the fact that I was very upset because my daughter clogs toilets.
