Eckhart Tolle offers a wonderful and very easy, convenient and private "tool" to help you recognize and possibly adjust your internal state. He simply says, throughout the day, ask yourself a very simple, basic question:
Where is your space?
By this, Tolle doesn't mean where is your physical space. He means where is your inner space. And with that question, you're compelled to identify whether you, in fact, have any space.
Many times throughout the day, particularly if your life is filled with drama and conflict (whether you are the "cause" of it or not), you'll identify, in answering this question, that you have no space. That the inner you, and the reacting you, are merged; there is no distance between them.
When you identify with an emotion -- which is what violence is -- you lose the space between your real being, and some mind-identified form.
So ask yourself throughout the day:
where is my space?
And if you can't find it, then take an internal step back until you find it.
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