The road and the map are your guides

Please read the post "What are you looking at?" before reading this post if you have not done so already.


What do you really do when you drive into unfamiliar territory? You make sure you get the directions to your destination before you leave. In this age of technology, you might even get yourself a GPS, so you can set the destination and let the GPS do the navigating for you. You might even set a goal for yourself as to how you are going to drive - maybe, you tell yourself that you are going to be defensive. However, you cannot really plan every action you are going to take along the way.

The way you really drive, hopefully, is with your eyes on the road ahead.  You let the road tell you what you need to do. You respond to things as they unfold ahead of you. You can also take in some of the scenery, at least what is ahead of you. If you use the old fashioned directions on a paper or in your head mechanism, you either listen to your navigator if you have one or you pay attention to road signs to tell you where to go. If you use a GPS, you let the GPS do the navigating and then respond to instructions from the GPS. But again you only respond to course changes as they are necessitated by your current location.

In this mode of driving, you are in the present moment, responding to the road and the directions as they occur. You are neither stuck to looking back at what you have passed already nor are you constantly thinking about the destination.