No More Blame Game

I hear about the monkey mind, but what is concerning me most lately is the blaming mind. It seems to jump as furiously as the monkey mind. Pointing fingers. Searching for blame. Making people pay. Withholding grace and affection until...what? Why do it? I am working on this within myself. I try to be conscious of it happening. Like when I think I can't go to work because of the kids. Or I would have been on time if it hadn't been for the traffic. Ugh. I am so tired of this in myself. It doesn't seem to help me become a better person. It certainly doesn't change the situation, but only distills within my soul a sense of despondence and sloth. If it someone else's fault or the fault of some condition that is beyond my responsibility than I don't have to change myself. Just watching the way my mind can trick me into blame is frightening, and it's one of the first tasks meditation and yoga is helping me with.