Can you speak about control issues?

Control issues primarily have to do with your perception of how events should unfold. And that in turn has to do with not living fully in the Now, which is the only true reality. When you do not live fully in the flow of the Now, you are in a very real sense depriving yourself of opportunities for joy and growth because you are not focusing on that which is real. So then the underlying question is why does one project the future instead of letting it unfold? And the answer is that you don’t actually project your future so much as your response to the events of the future. This is done as a defense of anything that might come your way to harm you. Your projections can at times indeed work on your behalf, but they are always the product of the ego, which is continually fighting for its survival.