Mari,

I think the fact that you even think to expend that energy puts you in a safer place than you realize. And you'd probably be safe even if you turned down the energy to just a bit cautious. OR only turned it on when you feel particularly upset. People do not get hospitalized for breaking down and crying, or screaming at someone else in line. Unless you physically assaulted someone... like enough to hurt them badly, it's unlikely you'd end up in jail or a hospital, as I see it.

The times I've been possibly in danger of being put in jail are all times when I wasn't in the least worried about it... eg reckless driving, drinking and driving. Both behaviors endanger others (and self). Cops will protect others by removing you from the streets, and in those situations, they will use force if you become belligerent because they cannot allow you to persist in those kinds of behaviors.

And the fact remains, if people worried or even had a second thought that they would end up in jail or in a hospital, they would not do that kind of stuff. I did not worry about it -- probably like most who do those things or other dumb, dangerous crap.

waves