“I’d been a forceful driver all of my driving life. I used to listen to ramp-me-up music and shoot through the streets of Los Angeles on a mission to get ‘there’ ahead of everyone else. I pushed the river of life. It was common for me to give the finger or curse other drivers slower, faster or just different than me. I hated traffic but I loved driving. I still love driving but drive differently.

At one moment in my past I decided I was only going to listen to calming, relaxing music, classical but not rousing classical, while I drove in an attempt to curb my passion for beating everyone to the stop light or being the first car in the fast lane. It helped some but I was still frustrated. I later learned a better way, but certainly you can combine the two methods I eventually used.

Not everyone is like me in this regard because I encountered them on the roadway. So this may or may not apply to you but it CAN be a powerful lesson in any regard. Consider this. Most happiness and success comes when you learn to experience true gratitude and acceptance. When you feel it in the fiber of your being and don’t just understand it intellectually. It’s not knowledge but knowing.

Freedom can be yours BUT if you do nothing, nothing changes!

When you have a definite purpose you want to accomplish. It comes when you have absolute faith, the feeling of certainty you will manifest it because you fully expect to. You believe in yourself. You know if it is going to ever happen it will happen because you cause it to happen. You don’t push it or force it but rather, you cooperate with it. You vibrate with it. You become one with it. You are it.

It occurs when you are able to get out of your own way. You learn to surrender and let go. You are able to flow with the flow of life as part of it not as a tiny boat in a current. You aren’t drifting, you are the flow. It comes quickest when you can accept whatever life offers gratefully and keep moving forward expecting the best. You stop resisting and move with what is offered. Similar to Aikido.

In Aikido you use energy offered to you and direct it. You don’t push back against it. You transform the direction. Get this and life becomes much more enjoyable for you. It’s ‘not my will but thy will.’ So, here’s the exercise I learned to embrace. Traffic is the universe giving you whatever it gives you. It IS what is. It’s existence. It’s not good or bad. No judgement. It just is.

Freedom can be yours BUT if you do nothing, nothing changes!

It has every possibility for you to get stuck, annoyed and angry. It provides an opportunity to push it or accept it. It’s frustrating for most people. It certainly was for me. That’s why it’s a great place to learn surrender. If you want to learn to go with the flow in life, begin with traffic. Of course, driving safely, should go without saying. Traffic allows you to fight it or flow with it. JUST like life. Get this.

Recognize that if a person cuts you off or pulls out in front of you at the last moment it IS your opportunity to relax and accept that this is what IS right now. The universe offers you this opportunity at this moment. If traffic is backed up, accept it. If you can’t easily go around it, that’s what life gives you right now. Don’t push it. ACCEPT IT. Relax, release. Realize this is a choice too.

A slow pedestrian crossing the street can be annoying to you or a gift for you. The light changes, or someone runs a light, whatever it is RELAX! This is what IS GOING ON AT THIS MOMENT! That is what is happening! Instead of cursing and trying to get back at them, accept it and allow it. Instead of driving and complaining, instead of being filled with stress, Cortisol and anger, let it go.

Freedom can be yours BUT if you do nothing, nothing changes!

Instead of complaining to your friends, family and co-workers about how horrible the commute was, let it go. LET IT GO! This is where you practice acceptance because, as you know, you will have PLENTY of opportunities each and every instant. THIS IS PRECISELY WHAT MAKES THIS EXERCISE SO VALUABLE! Traffic can be your meditation. It can be your gift to practice being different.

For many this will be an excruciating exercise BUT how better to learn to give up control and accept  what the universe gives us. We get so many opportunities. Traffic is a great place to learn. You can use driving to learn how to surrender to what is. There will be plenty of challenging moments as you are quite aware, I know. Remember, how you react to traffic and anything else IS a habit.

Your habits. So, if you can learn, ‘hey this is what IS right now’, and accept it and surrender to it, you can learn to do it anywhere else too. Use the flow of traffic to learn HOW TO go with the flow. When you get hot or frustrated AND can become aware of it, recognize it. Then, instead of making it worse, relax and drive safely. Release that frustrating energy and project calm. Be courteous.

Freedom can be yours BUT if you do nothing, nothing changes!

Bless the other drivers, the bikes, motorcycles and pedestrians, the truckers who would have infuriated you in the past. Stop trying to push the river. Relax and let the current take you down stream. This exercise is a wonderful opportunity because you will learn so many fascinating things about yourself. You will change your life when you learn true acceptance.

You will transform your life when you learn to wish all others well. Bless others, praise others, celebrate others regardless of anything and you will transform yourself and your life. It will amaze you. SO, STOP complaining! Stop whining! Relax. Surrender. Go with the flow. Be gentle with yourself through this learning process and enjoy transforming your life. You can find magic and mystery in each and every moment when you stop and look. When you find it, fill yourself with gratitude. Decide to have a marvelous magical day no matter what.Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

 

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“I’ll be blunt: I’m very disappointed that these secrets are available. I think buying this material should be treated like buying hand guns: You should have to fill out forms and get checked out first to see if you’ll use this wisdom for good or evil. I’ve NEVER seen such powerful techniques or insights. The average psychologist, cold reader, magician, or mentalist doesn’t know these “beyond secret” methods. You could start a cult with this! Far too powerful to be released publicly. Please take your Ultimate NLP Home Study Program package off the market—especially now that I own it.” –Joe Vitale –  Author, 2000

“I am smiling and my heart is beating a little bit faster now, Rex. We go all the way back to the last century and me finding my way in many ways at that point. You helped me during that point because I learned NLP, and some of the communication material came from you. I was sitting at your feet and learning how to apply it in my life and career.

Freedom can be yours BUT if you do nothing, nothing changes!

You sent me cassettes Rex way back in the 1990s, and these were cassettes on communication and NLP. And we had exchanged some things and we had talked and you were very kind to me and very generous with me. I religiously listened to everything I am always studying, always growing, always working on myself and maybe even more intensely back then. Thank you Rex!Joe Vitale -Author, appeared in ‘The Secret’, 2022