CORRECTLY COPING WITH TRAFFIC

While driving your car or moving around on public transport in your city or on the means of transport of your choice, arriving at your destination with calm and peace is usually a titanic task, one full of distractions. This transforms it into a challenge to fine-tune the control you have over your mind.

Worse traffic, more stress. This condition is usually, for many, as real as gravity is, practically a physical law, and the reason why simple crashes or accidents, which should have simple solutions, are transformed into battles full of insults, guilt and even blood. But since every problem has a solution, and every challenge is, in its definition, an opportunity for growth, bad traffic can be a great exercise to strengthen your mindfulness.

When we drive or move around our city, we are usually in an autopilot state and do not consider what we do during the tour. Thanks to the GPS service you use (if you do), you do not pay attention to the route. Thanks to the accident that made you arrive 20 minutes late, you did not pay attention to the treatment you gave to other people. Thanks to the number of cars on the way, you did not enjoy the wonderful weather that accompanied you on the way.

Going to school, college, work, your partner's house, or the destination you choose does not have to be a suffering, in fact it is a great time to understand how does your mind works, functions and imagines in moments or situations of discomfort.

"I practice staying calm all the time, starting from situations that are tense."

Martha Beck

The transformation exercise I propose in this entry begins with one that has been recommended for a long time and through different means: 'take a deep breath'. Performing this action not only allows you to be calmer, it supplies more oxygen to your body and expands the space between stress and bad traffic, creating an area of perspective and choice. In addition to the above, giving yourself that moment allows you to see your body and understand where there is tension and release it.

Add to the previous exercise language: When we are in moments of high stress, we tend to speak in a very negative way, not only towards ourselves but also towards the other, leaving behind that although our goals in life may be different, we all have common denominators, such as be at peace, to be happy and feel safe. Changing that communication and those messages are the difference between a person who arrives with a smile and the one who does it with a frown.

Concentrating on arriving at destination safely, arriving happy and full of peace is not the only task, it is also paying attention to details, taking care of what your mind is thinking and moving with awareness of what is done. Place and pay close attention to the traffic fills with power your day and allows you to center your mind on how wonderful is what happens, and will happen, around you.

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