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You can control your emotions. Perhaps you have encountered road rage in yourself or others. Or been tempted. When we spend time from minutes to hours, on the roads or freeways every day, we may we think impatienly, or we get in a hurry.

Can we really change our neutral or bad driving experiences into good ones? Can we help cut down on road rage?

We attract what we concentrate on

The universal law of attraction says that we attract to us whatever we think about. So, if we expect tension and impolite people to come our way, they most likely will. Why? Because we are acting tense and impolite ourselves, and that is what we attract. Then we get made at the rude people (when we are being rude ourselves.)

You keep seeing that same car

Ever noticed how you keep seeing the same kind of car whenever you focus on, say, a Corvette? All of a sudden there are Corvettes everywhere. Its the law of attraction.

We can feel great when we drive

We really just want to feel great when we are driving. Why not? Doesnt everyone like to feel great all the time? If we want to attract feeling great we need to expect to see polite, courteous, and friendly people on the road.

Study after study tells us that when we say or think something repeatedly, we actually make it happen. If we talk about how bad it is, we just get more negative things, says Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Whatever we think about we bring about

Whatever we concentrate on is what fills up our lives. By being critical and picky we set ourselves up for being unhappy. Negative thoughts make us negative people.

Negative thoughts cause stress

Rhonda Byrne, author of the blockbuster book and video, The Secret, tells us that a negative thought is the beginning of stress, and stress causes illness. It also causes bad things to happen to us. Especially on the road. Changing to positive thoughts of love and gratitude removes stress and brings good health.

Joyce tried an experiment

A friend of ours in her 20s, Joyce Jones, decided to try an experiment to test this out on the road. She bought a lighted sign to mount in her cars back window that she programmed to say THANK YOU. Whenever someone did something nice for her, like let her in, or give her the right-of-way, all she did was press a button on her remote to make the sign flash in big bright red letters, THANK YOU.

A THANK YOU button

She said it not only changed her day, but, when she looked in her rear view mirror, she noticed that most of the time the drivers who let her in were smiling. She had changed her own thinking and she had also changed someone elses thoughts. She started looking for opportunities to hit the THANK YOU button.

One day at the car wash someone asked her what the sign was all about. (She had turned it on for fun to say thanks to her car wash guy.) I just want to make the road a friendlier place, she said. What a great idea, was the response.

OOPS, Im Sorry

Let me show you another phrase I use too, Joyce said, and flashed OOPS IM SORRY. Everyone got a chuckle out of that one, she said. Which one do I use more? Its a toss-up some days, she added.

Joyce knows now that what she thinks about on the road is a significant thing. She knows, along with the sages, that our thoughts and words actually create our lives and influence the lives and circumstances around us.

Staying aware of our thoughts

We can consciously create our daily lives by staying aware of our thoughts and words and choosing them with an eye to how we want to feel.

Here are some choices for ways to think about our driving experiences. These words will change your emotions and experiences from negative to positive.

Use these positive thoughts for great driving experiences

When we drive, we will now think thoughts that tell ourselves we are:

Enjoying the drive

Feeling marvelous

I am a patient driver

I am better than ever

I am friendly

I am courteous

I am at ease

I am always relaxed

I am feeling good

People in the other cars are friendly people

In contrast, these are some of the words and phrases that you dont want to use any more. If you recognize them as being familiar, just be happy you are eliminating them from your conversation.

Eliminate these negative thoughts

Traffic makes me nuts

Its worse than ever

No one knows how to drive

Dont even think about getting there on time

No one ever gives me a break

Its a rat race out there

I hate to drive

We are the creators of our own lives

The little known dynamic of life is that we are the creators of our own lives. All of the great thinkers and inventors of life have understood this. Now the word is out to all of us. We create our own lives, and our own happiness. We do it through our thoughts and our words.

It starts with a simple, Driving is fun. There are a lot of friendly people in cars. I like the idea of Road Peace. I am making myself a part of it. I am peaceful on the road.

Let your thoughts and words soar out ahead of you. Pick yourself up out of that funk and start a new driving life today. Tell yourself that you are in charge now and things are b>GREAT on the road.

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Dr. Kathy Joyce Abbott and Stella Pacific are miracle coaches in the entertainment industry in Hollywood, California. They specialize in removing obstacles to success in people's lives -- emotionally, financially, spiritually, and physically. Hundreds of their positive affirmations are in studios, homes, and offices in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Hollywood and around the world. Subscribe to free positive thoughts and images at http://www.freesoulcandycards.com

Stella Pacific and Kathy Joyce Abbott are miracle coaches in the entertainment industry in Hollywood, California where there are more cars on the road every day than anywhere else in the world. Their soulcandycards are the homes and studios of stars, producers and directors and people around the world. Contact them at freesoulcandycards@yahoo.com

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