There's lots you can do to prevent and deal with Road Rage. If counting to 10 hasn't worked for you, pick your level below - choose from Beginner, Intermediate or Expert - and try one of the following techniques. Each one is designed for maximum satisfaction and earns karma points.
BEGINNER: HEART BOMBS
Technique Conjure up a bucketful of bombs and launch 'em at that guy who just cut you off… make sure the bombs you're using are shaped like full, red heart-shaped water balloons and imagine them bursting all over the guy's head as they land one satisfyingly whack after another.
Satisfaction Quotient Oh yeah… that's what I'm talking about!
Karma Points Quite a few, because while you're still indulging in your anger, you recognize that your anger shouldn't hurt or endanger anyone, including yourself. And love bombs, while still bombs, explode with love. So that's a start.
INTERMEDIATE: ONE BREATH BIG BELLY
Technique Through your nose, breath in as much air as you can. Make sure to fill your lungs from the bottom up. If you're doing this right, your belly should significantly expand (try to get your belly to look at least 15 months pregnant). Now hold it for bit, maybe 5 to 10 seconds. (Not until you pass out, please. Be sensible.) Then let your breath out through your mouth, bringing in your belly as you do to push out every last bit of air, and at the same time, imagine that your exhale is actually coming out of your chest. Rinse, repeat.
Satisfaction Quotient: Wow... that feels soooo much better!
Karma Points: Many, because you didn't engage at all with the guy who just cut you off, recognizing that allowing any situation or person to "make" you mad is just giving up your personal power. And why would anyone do that? Celebrate your masterful self!
ADVANCED: CALMING COMPASSION
Technique There isn't one; there's just you and the moment.
Satisfaction Level Complete.
Karma Points Infinite, because you are now beyond technique, beyond allowing external events and people to control how you feel and act. And that guy who just cut you off? You recognize that his bad driving isn't personal and has nothing to do with you at all. He's simply unaware, wrapped up in his own problems and needs, just like you used to be, so you can relate. You drive along calmly now, grateful that you have a car (lots of folks don't) and that you've figured this all out. And then, for old time's sake, you heart bomb the guy with love, because the way he's driving, he probably needs all the love he can get.
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About The Author CJ Kenna is a Founding Director at the nonprofit Rock The Path, a Hemi-Sync based Meditation & Retreat Center in Camden, Maine. She co-facilitates meditative retreats, including the popular Living From The Heart weekend workshop retreat.
Research has now shown that through thought, intentionality and heart centered techniques, we have the ability to change the very structure of our DNA.
Think DNA is the sole determinant of who you are? What you're capable of? Even what diseases you may get? Then here's some good news; while science has for decades touted the all-encompassing rule of DNA through the theory of genetic determinism, it turns out there's more - quite a bit more - determining our phisiologic fate.
Enter Epigenetics, which since the 1950s has studied the effects of our environment - including our emotions, intentions, and thoughts - on our DNA structure and expression. And what they've recently proven is astounding; we possess the ability to effect and change our very DNA.
Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., cell biologist and bestselling author of The Biology of Belief states the distinction between genetic determinism and epigenetics is vitally important. Says Lipton in the online magazine, Superconsciousness: "The difference between these two is significant because this fundamental belief called genetic determinism literally means that our… lives are being controlled by things outside of our ability to change them. This leads to victimization that the illnesses and diseases that run in families are propagated through the passing of genes associated with those attributes. Laboratory evidence shows this is not true."
Simply put, epigenetic research demonstrates that your positive (or negative) thoughts, emotions, and intentions can significantly effect your body and your health… all the way down to the cellular level. So while cancer may run in your family and be coded in your DNA, there's quite a lot you can do - and think about - to avoid it. And it may be the heart - not the brain - that delivers the most effective results.
Researchers at the Institute of Heartmath have found that individuals can intentionally change DNA through the generation of heart coherence, a beneficial state reached through specific breathing and meditative techniques. In one study, an individual, directed to enter the state of heart coherence while holding three DNA samples, was asked to intentionally unwind two of the DNA strands while leaving the third untouched. Amazingly, the individual succeeded, demonstrating that "individuals capable of generating high ratios of heart coherence were able to alter DNA conformation according to their intention" and that individuals who showed low ratios of heart coherence (which defined the study's control group), could not. (Modulation of DNA Conformation by Heart-Focused Intention: McCraty, Atkinson, Tomasino, 2003)
This is really is big news, folks, and I urge you to start using it to your advantage. So grab some food for thought and start munching, because you're not just what you eat, you're what you think, too.
Next Step: Use + Share This Important Info
1. Learn To Live From Your Heart
2. Review The Research
3. Read The Biology Belief by Bruce Liption, PhD
4. Watch 1 Minute Healing
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About The Author CJ Kenna is a Founding Director at the nonprofit Rock The Path, a Hemi-Sync based Meditation & Retreat Center in Camden, Maine. She co-facilitates meditative retreats, including the popular Living From The Heart weekend workshop retreat.
LOOK WITHIN TO LIVE IT UP!
Does your conscious awareness "live" in your head, behind your eyes? Is this the perch from which you view the world? It's where most people do, except for folks like Helen Keller who said: "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
This might just be true.
When we were developing the weekend retreat, Living From The Heart, one of the most amazing things we included was a technique for moving one's awareness from the head, behind the eyes, to the heart. Sounds weird, right? Or impossible. Or both. Yet while it may be odd, it's very possible and it changes everything.
Moving your consciousness from your head to your heart isn't imagining that you are doing it (although when you first try it, faking it till you make it is a great first step), it's really and truly moving it.
Once you experience awareness from your heartspace, instead of your head-space, things "look" different, feel different… in fact when perceiving from this place of nonjudgmental acceptance, things actually may be different.
And isn't that amazing? There are so many little - yet pretty profound - things we can do to make our world, and even the world, a better place. And as Buddha said: "The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."
Stop looking up, and instead look within.
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About The Author CJ Kenna is a Founding Director at the nonprofit Rock The Path, a Hemi-Sync Meditation & Retreat Center in Camden, Maine. She co-facilitates meditative retreats, including the popular Living From The Heart.
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Summary: Cindy Swan, diagnosed with cancer, is recently back from Brazil where she met renowned spiritual healer, John of God, credited with hundreds of miraculous healings. Come hear what happened next.
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Camden, Maine: For the last 40 years, millions of people worldwide have considered João Teixeira de Faria, internationally known as John of God, the most powerful healer alive today. ABC News, 60 Minutes, CNN and The Oprah Show have all done segments on this man who calls himself a simple farmer, but who is none-the-less credited with countless healings.
Thousands, including presenter Cindy Swan, have sought the healing of physical disease, including cancers, tumors, and birth defects, traveling to the Casa de Dom Inacio de Loyola in Abadiania, Goias, Brazil to attend one of John of God's free clinics.
“I do not cure anybody. God heals, and in his infinite goodness permits the Entities to heal and console my brothers. I am merely an instrument in God’s divine hands.” – John of God: JohnofGod.com
On Sunday, March 4 from 1 pm - 4 pm, Rock The Path, a not-for-profit retreat and mediation center in Camden, Maine, will present Cindy Swan, recently returned from the Casa in Brazil where she met with John of God. Ms. Swan will share her experience, present a slide show, and show a short film. The event is free with donations gratefully accepted. Please RSVP for this event online at www.RockThePath.org or by calling Rock The Path at 207-236-7459