I once met a man named Blake who was a professional racing car instructor. I asked him to share his most important and helpful driving tip. He responded by telling me the following story.
One day, as student drivers were whizzing around his training track, something interesting occurred. Suddenly, a "train" of six student cars, each one behind the other, veered left off of the track and onto the green grass in the center of the raceway. According to Blake, it looked as though on cue, all of the drivers simultaneously agreed to leave the track and have a picnic in the middle of the track.
Later that day in a classroom, Blake asked the first driver why he left the track. The lead driver responded that he thought he smelled something burning in his car and so decided to get off the track. Blake then asked the second driver why he had left the track. The second driver replied that he never intended to leave the track. All he did was to watch the car in front of him. Suddenly he found himself exiting the race track and heading for the center grass. The other drivers responded to Blake's question in the same manner.
Blake then explained to the students why all of the cars followed each other. "Your hands follow your eyes." Picture that within the human body there is an invisible thread that connects our hands to our eyes. Therefore, whatever our eyes focus upon - our hands will tend to respond accordingly. Avoid Avoiding Don Enright, an Emmy award winning television producer, and an amateur racing car driver, once shared with me another valuable piece of racing wisdom. Over the years it has served me well and has been extremely helpful many areas of my life.
When an emergency situation occurs on the race track, rather than looking at the car or wall and attempting not to hit it, a better response is to put your attention on looking for an opening.
According to Enright, problems arise on the race track when you deal in negatives rather than positives. When you are concentrating on not hitting the obstacle, you are focusing on the very thing you are trying to avoid. As we previously discussed, because our hands will tend to be influenced by our eyes, you will wind up hitting the very obstacle that you are attempting to avoid. (Being transfixed on avoiding obstacles would also include: constantly complaining about the ways things are and aren't and believing that things should have turned out differently.)
In addition, the more you look for and follow new openings. the more you will be building and supporting what Dr. Joe Dispenza refers to as: a new neural network of possibilities. American Indian Wisdom
It is said that once, a very wise American Indian Elder was trying to pass some wisdom onto his grandchildren by telling them this story. "Inside of my stomach there are two powerful wolves," he told them. "One wolf has my best interests in mind, while the other one is up to no good. Which wolf do you think will win the power struggle inside of me?" After his grandchildren gave up guessing the answer, the elder said, "The wolf that will survive, is the wolf that I choose to feed." The Flashlight Image Imagine that you have a very magical flashlight that is hooked up to a powerful computer. Whatever you shine your flashlight on informs the computer that this is what you are interested in, and to begin attracting more of whatever is being letup.
Be aware this magical flashlight does not care about you or have your best interests at heart. Its job is simply to become a "flashlight genie" telling the computer to manifest whatever you are lighting up - the great, the good, the bad, or the horrendous. This is why worrying and complaining can be so detrimental. These worry wart areas tell the computer to keep creating and/or attracting more of the thoughts, emotions, physical states of being, and circumstances that you are complaining about.
Once you discover the power of this flashlight system you will begin be more attentive to shine the light on what you want and not on what you don't want. (From a metaphysical standpoint, by doing "selective shining," you will be "petitioning the universe" to bring more of these things into your world.)
Beware of Not "Not-ing" While we are on the subject of attention, here is an important fact to remember. According to psychologists, our brain has a difficult time understanding and registering the words "not" and "don't. As a result, when we use the words "not" and "don't," our brain will act like a malfunctioning keyboard that is unable to transfer these words onto the screen. So, although you will type in "don't follow the lead car," or "not to hit the wall," what will get transferred to your command center is "___ to hit the wall," and "___ to follow the lead car."
For this reason, when making requests, especially of children, it is more effective to ask them to place their attention on something active by saying, " hold onto the glass, watch the ball, and "embrace the baby," rather than saying "don't drop the glass, ball, and "baby."
Rather than being obsessed with what you don't want - dead ends, derailments, and disappointments - dare to become more attentive to the things that you do want - more opportunities and enlivening experiences. Keep remembering that during an emergency, and/or challenging circumstances respond by having your eyes look for the opening rather than having them be transfixed on obstacles.
This "attending to" can help you to stay tuned to your Discovery Channel rather than panicking and switching to your Disaster Channel.
In closing, because Einstein demonstrated that everything is energy (E = mc2), why not place your energy on pursuing openings rather than on avoiding obstacles. - 16890
One day, as student drivers were whizzing around his training track, something interesting occurred. Suddenly, a "train" of six student cars, each one behind the other, veered left off of the track and onto the green grass in the center of the raceway. According to Blake, it looked as though on cue, all of the drivers simultaneously agreed to leave the track and have a picnic in the middle of the track.
Later that day in a classroom, Blake asked the first driver why he left the track. The lead driver responded that he thought he smelled something burning in his car and so decided to get off the track. Blake then asked the second driver why he had left the track. The second driver replied that he never intended to leave the track. All he did was to watch the car in front of him. Suddenly he found himself exiting the race track and heading for the center grass. The other drivers responded to Blake's question in the same manner.
Blake then explained to the students why all of the cars followed each other. "Your hands follow your eyes." Picture that within the human body there is an invisible thread that connects our hands to our eyes. Therefore, whatever our eyes focus upon - our hands will tend to respond accordingly. Avoid Avoiding Don Enright, an Emmy award winning television producer, and an amateur racing car driver, once shared with me another valuable piece of racing wisdom. Over the years it has served me well and has been extremely helpful many areas of my life.
When an emergency situation occurs on the race track, rather than looking at the car or wall and attempting not to hit it, a better response is to put your attention on looking for an opening.
According to Enright, problems arise on the race track when you deal in negatives rather than positives. When you are concentrating on not hitting the obstacle, you are focusing on the very thing you are trying to avoid. As we previously discussed, because our hands will tend to be influenced by our eyes, you will wind up hitting the very obstacle that you are attempting to avoid. (Being transfixed on avoiding obstacles would also include: constantly complaining about the ways things are and aren't and believing that things should have turned out differently.)
In addition, the more you look for and follow new openings. the more you will be building and supporting what Dr. Joe Dispenza refers to as: a new neural network of possibilities. American Indian Wisdom
It is said that once, a very wise American Indian Elder was trying to pass some wisdom onto his grandchildren by telling them this story. "Inside of my stomach there are two powerful wolves," he told them. "One wolf has my best interests in mind, while the other one is up to no good. Which wolf do you think will win the power struggle inside of me?" After his grandchildren gave up guessing the answer, the elder said, "The wolf that will survive, is the wolf that I choose to feed." The Flashlight Image Imagine that you have a very magical flashlight that is hooked up to a powerful computer. Whatever you shine your flashlight on informs the computer that this is what you are interested in, and to begin attracting more of whatever is being letup.
Be aware this magical flashlight does not care about you or have your best interests at heart. Its job is simply to become a "flashlight genie" telling the computer to manifest whatever you are lighting up - the great, the good, the bad, or the horrendous. This is why worrying and complaining can be so detrimental. These worry wart areas tell the computer to keep creating and/or attracting more of the thoughts, emotions, physical states of being, and circumstances that you are complaining about.
Once you discover the power of this flashlight system you will begin be more attentive to shine the light on what you want and not on what you don't want. (From a metaphysical standpoint, by doing "selective shining," you will be "petitioning the universe" to bring more of these things into your world.)
Beware of Not "Not-ing" While we are on the subject of attention, here is an important fact to remember. According to psychologists, our brain has a difficult time understanding and registering the words "not" and "don't. As a result, when we use the words "not" and "don't," our brain will act like a malfunctioning keyboard that is unable to transfer these words onto the screen. So, although you will type in "don't follow the lead car," or "not to hit the wall," what will get transferred to your command center is "___ to hit the wall," and "___ to follow the lead car."
For this reason, when making requests, especially of children, it is more effective to ask them to place their attention on something active by saying, " hold onto the glass, watch the ball, and "embrace the baby," rather than saying "don't drop the glass, ball, and "baby."
Rather than being obsessed with what you don't want - dead ends, derailments, and disappointments - dare to become more attentive to the things that you do want - more opportunities and enlivening experiences. Keep remembering that during an emergency, and/or challenging circumstances respond by having your eyes look for the opening rather than having them be transfixed on obstacles.
This "attending to" can help you to stay tuned to your Discovery Channel rather than panicking and switching to your Disaster Channel.
In closing, because Einstein demonstrated that everything is energy (E = mc2), why not place your energy on pursuing openings rather than on avoiding obstacles. - 16890
About the Author:
Al is a business consultant who assists people in living richer and more rewarding lives. Specifically, he is a motivational speaker, workshop leader, personal and business coach. Al has worked with management and sales teams at Boeing, Hilton Hotels,, Deloitte Touche, Century 21, The Learning Annex, to name a few. Al is also the author of the best-seller, The 15 Second Principle.
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