Do you have lizard brain behind the wheel? Scared? Fearful? Angry? Defensive? This podcast addresses our survival instinct we may have while driving and how we can evolve beyond a scared reptile into a calm, kind and compassionate traveler.  Know the warning signs of lizard brain driving:

• Feeling a lack of control
• Anger
• Rage
• Feeling trapped or powerless
• Feeling suppressed
• Outbursts of anger like shouting, cursing
• Using your car like a shell or shield for protection
• Using your car as a weapon or threat
• Identify with your car as an extension of you

You are not your car; this is not your hermit shell that needs protection. Do you want to defend your car and your opinion or do you want to feel peaceful and calm in this moment? Remember you are not your story, your feelings, emotions, thoughts or possessions. You are something much bigger than that. Your co-pilot is calm.

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It’s Monday morning and your late again. Your stuck in bumper to bumper traffic and losing it. That jerk in the convertible just cut you off and that crazy person behind you is ridding your ass. Your trapped behind a Wal-Mart truck that is spewing diesel fumes into your passenger side widow making you choke and tear up. The widows rolled down because the air conditioner is on the fritz again and your spritzing like an animal. You can feel the rage beginning to build up inside you.

It’s hot, smelly, overcrowded and insane.  You’re on the edge…

How can you possibly meditate or relax in this situation? Listen to this podcast to learn some ways to help you navigate through the chaos and noise.  Explore some innate abilities that help you cope and relive your suffering, dis-ease and stress.

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When the attachment to thoughts subsides our mind naturally gets quiet and we begin to experience gaps between thoughts. In these gaps, we can hear the soft -spoken voice of the heart. This soft-spoken voice is a compass, that can point us to the direction we need to travel – inward.

In life, sometimes we need guidance and advice so we may look outward to our friends and family for counsel and wisdom.  My advice to you is this, seek the inward path to your own inner teacher, it’s there for us at any time and any place. This guide has always been there within us we were born with it, at times it’s just difficult or impossible to hear. The voice of the heart is quiet, soft and non-intrusive. On the other had the external noises of life are often so harsh and loud that the sotto voice of our heart is drowned out completely.

What can we do to hear our inner guidance? Daily seek a place of solitude and calm and simply stop. Set everything down. Be still. Take several long slow deep breaths in and out. Allow yourself to settle. Each day we have the opportunity to acknowledge this inner stillness and the soft voice of our can our heart-mind. Each day we can make this moment of stillness a priority. It’s up to us.

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In every moment there is the opportunity to see that your true nature is happiness. There is no need to seek for what is already yours. The treasure is within you.

• Spend quiet time alone contemplating nothingness
• See that you are perfect in this moment
• Accept things as they are and be gracious
• Change is a constant
• Thoughts will come and go
• You are much bigger than you know
• Practice being still
• The felling you have that everything is OK is not wishful thinking
• In the morning be aware of the morning Grinch telling you that everything is miserable, you are miserable, it’s all miserable.
• Who or what is that voice inside you?
• Enquire, be curious and know your true Self

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