Road Rage - Uncovering The Deadly Secrets Of One Of Your Road Rage Incidents - Part I
Road Rage – Uncovering the Deadly Secrets of One of Your Road Rage Incidents –Part I Road Rage is pandemic in America today. Everyday newspapers report outrageous incidents of road rage, incidents that end in vicious physical attacks, shootings, stabbings, multi-car collisions, and senseless deaths.
So prevalent has the outcome of road rage become that it should be obvious that we need a new term for “accident” when it applies to a road rage incident.
There is nothing accidental about a road rage situation. Accidents occur without intention; road rage occurs with intention, sometimes deadly intention.
Your very life depends upon learning to understand what triggers you to rage, what techniques you can use to avoid raging, and what driving skills can ease the stress that builds to rage.
If you are motivated in any way to save your life, here is a simple method to begin the process. It is a way to uncover how your buttons get pushed and to see how you react when they are.
Star athletes and their coaches have successfully used a particular technique that you can adapt to your own situation. They watch
Next, they analyze it play by play; they evaluate the good plays as well as the bad plays. It is an objective evaluation. No egos are involved, no personalities, just the actions and the reactions.
Each player sees himself from a distance. He observes the opposing players’ actions and reactions. He observes his reactions to their actions as well as their reactions to his actions.
The coach points out the athlete’s skillful handling of the ball, his quick moves, and his successful follow through. He also points out shortcoming and makes suggestions to take the player’s skills to a higher level so as to win more games with fewer injuries.
In using this technique, you are the coach and the player and also the movie maker. In order to create a future that is both safe and sane, choose one of your simple road rage incidents.
Put yourself in a dissociated viewpoint. You will be seeing the incident from the distance; you will not be looking at your feelings and emotions. Think of yourself as an objective observer (like the coach). Pretend that you are flying a helicopter and can see everything that is happening all around.
Now begin to see the incident occurring and start to seek the secrets you have been hiding from yourself, behavior that has been causing driving stress.
Watch yourself now starring in the movie.
How well do you know this driving terrain?
Where are you going?
Are you on time?
How fast are you driving?
Is the traffic slow and congested?
Is the pace too fast?
Are you hungry? Are you thirsty?
Are you in pain or discomfort?
Do you need to use a restroom?
Are you running out of gas?
Have you missed the turn-off?
Are you lost?
Are you having trouble with the car?
Is someone tail-gating you?
Are other drivers reckless and aggressive?
Are they weaving in and out?
Are you in a traffic snarl?
Are there too many side accesses to the highway?
Are people unwilling to yield when required?
Is the roadway being worked on with unexpected or confusing directions?
Is the road surface in need of paving?
Are the roads wet or icy?
Are there any unusual driving circumstances?
Consider any condition that could have contributed to your incident of road rage. Then start over with any other incident in which you were involved.
Keep a record of your findings about what triggered your road rage incidents. Keep them in mind when you drive. Are you avoiding your “button-pushers”? In Part II you will find more and deeper secrets that have been controlling your life and leading you onto the front page.
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