Power of Persuasion

As I've started to clean up certain aspects of my life and put things into perspective, I have this little voice that creeps into my head and tries to bring anger into whatever situation I find myself in. Angry words that try to creep out of my mouth, words that I have tried to forget, I find that I repeat myself over and over when I get angry, getting irritated at the slightest sound sometimes. I've learned to recognize this feeling through energy work and realize that it is Satan trying to get at me anyway he can. I don't think we realize the way he works. I think it is downplayed. He tempts us with food, porn, sex, spending money where we shouldn't, feeling lazy, etc. Now I am not saying that it is always him, but he has learned to seep in where he can little by little, to find where our weaknesses are, he plays on our fears, and magnifies them. I remember being extremely sick for a few years, and feeling afraid to go outside, or go to the store. A social phobia some would call it. (I personally don't believe in these cliche names like bi polar, social phobia, etc, etc. These are names pharmaceutical companies have come up with to sell their drugs, they are labels.) I find that these feelings come back every so often as a way of holding me back from progressing. He loves more than anything to hold us back. I was recently taught to recognize these feelings, when negative thoughts or emotions come into my mind to say "Satan Get Thee Hence" with all the courage I can summon. Because we are more powerful than him, in the sense that we have a body, something that he squandered. We have free agency, something I think we let him take from us from time to time, and sometimes take from ourselves. Telling him off, that he is not going to mess with our family I have found works too. There is always a way back.
Here's to now....