How Steering a Negative Mind to the Positive can be as Simple as Driving a Car
Cars have inbuilt safety features – and so do our minds. The problem is our minds’ features were installed 50,000 years ago.
I don’t know if you’ve ever taken your hands off the wheel while driving at speed down a long straight road, but if you have, you’ll probably have noticed that the car doesn’t carry on straight by itself. It will, if you’re in the U.K. at least, pull slightly to the left instead of going straight forward (reverse lefts and rights if you drive on the right). Please don’t try it.
Manufacturers cleverly set up the suspension to make sure that if you fall asleep on the motorway, the car will pull you gently off the road into a crash barrier instead of into deadly oncoming traffic. Clever, eh?
If you want to go in a straight line, you have to put just a little bit of effort into pushing the wheel very slightly to the right. If we want to go into the fast lane, which let’s face it is where the fun is (drive safely people!), it takes a bit more effort than if we want to go into the slower lane, because the car is pulling us slightly that way anyway.
That’s all done with very simple mechanics designed to keep us safe. A crash barrier isn’t…
