The Mind
This chapter casts a light on the working
of our mind and provides instructions
on how to use it to avoid road accidents.
"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything is to be obliterated."
-- Jean Baudrillard, French Social Scientist
Mind & Technology:
The vehicles now have foolproof technology. They never disappoint you. They are immune to a sudden breakdown. They are easy to handle and carry sufficient security features.
But technology cannot operate, master or control the driver's mind. Rather the driver has got in his hand the ability to decide the fate of the vehicle more than technology.
Human mind invents technology which can also be destroyed by the human handiwork.
Human mind is a glue stick:
-- Avoid being nostalgic
-- Avoid being imaginative
-- Avoid brainstorming
-- Avoid thinking about any problem
Common distractions:
1. A topless beautiful girl
2. Spotting a person you are sorely missing
3. Spotting a cricket star or any other icon
4. Spotting a long-lost friend
5. Spotting your lover with another person
6. Spotting your enemy
The human mind is susceptible to the following forces:
1. Those which carry immediate physical threats.
2. Those which inspire fear.
3. Panics, for example, remembering something important you have just passed by.
4. Things like failure in a competition, which has affected your faith and made your future survival doubtful.
Beware, emotions are destructive and intelligence is life-sustaining!
Man is a rational animal, and not completely an emotional being. Yet human emotion is immensely overwhelming... We have got to overcome our emotions.
Human thoughts are wanderers. Multiple thoughts run amuck. In the melee, if a thought trails a strong emotional line, it results in dysfunction of motor mechanism.
Driving is a forward movement. We drive along the road straight, whereas our thoughts wander into many directions, that too run backward. So being thoughtful and emotional is inviting accidents.
A "Destined mind" must also be a "means-possessive mind"
Instructions:
01. Do not mind the instructions for fuel utilization. Let the fuel burn to situations, not to gears.
02. Do not forget your own mistakes. Put your working memory against the wall of the situations that led to your mistakes.
03. Mindfulness is the key.
04. Alertness as a preventive is highly effective.
05. Keeping calm in difficult situations is always rewarding.
06. Keep guard against mental distractions
Vision of Mind
Power of Empathy
-- Concern for others
-- Being considerate
-- Don't mind being forestalled or pre-empted
-- Wait and watch
-- "Patience is the mother of all virtues."
Mind It !
You may be 99 times successful, but 1 time error may bring a failure that will bury your 99 successes in your grave... Your 99 successful drives become meaningless, as one error causes the whole difference.
Remember: To err is human...
On the other hand, your 99 neglectful drives may not run into any accident, but only 1 touch will bring you the hell. And this one-time mishap does not come in order, i.e. after the successive 99 successful drives; this one-time danger may hit you at your very first drive or at any point between 1 and 99.
Remember: Your successful drives are more due to the people moving away from you than your own skill.
"You are only sane man driving."
You are sane and your vehicle runs flawless, but you are not free from subjection to accidents.
Remember:
• You may not be drunk, but they may be.
• You may not be disturbed, but they may be.
• You may not be fatigued, but they may be.
• You may be perfect, but they may not be.
• You may be careful, but they may not be.
Habits of Mind
Driving Is A Meditation
• Meditate
• Do yoga, pranayam
• Play chess
• Have plants in and around your house
• Chew gum while driving
• Fall in a habit that makes your mind cool and calm
Perils of craze:
• Craziness is an extreme craving for something that paralyzes the other brain faculties essential for traffic judgements.
• Personal craziness can be several. It varies from crazy driving to being crazy for foods.
• Objects of craze could be encountered any point enroute.
• The only craziness that is highly essential for safe driving is being crazy for your safety as well as the safety of your car.
• Feeling safe and cozy inside the moving car is a dangerous craze.
Ideologies
A: In response to the horn from behind
Ideology 1-
Quick response to the horn.
Ideology 2-
Slow response to the horn.
Ideology 3-
Unmindful to/ignoring the horn.
Ideology 4-
Let the following vehicle go past by pulling your vehicle to a side.
Ideology 5-
Driving faster at the sound of the horn.
B: In sounding the horn
Ideology 1-
Mindless horning.
Ideology 2-
Excessive horning.
Ideology 3-
Short horning.
Ideology 4-
Long horning.
C: In driving
Ideology 1-
Thinking of oneself only (inspired by personal safety).
Ideology 2-
Thinking of others only (inspired by safety of others only).
Ideology 3-
Thinking of both oneself and others (inspired by safety of the both).
Vision of Mind
Our eyes sight things and mind recognizes them thus guiding us drive safe, avoiding shortcomings on the road. While our mind is visualizing, our eyes are virtually blind. Drawing a mental picture while driving can be dangerous for the driver as the eyes fail to focus on the things that crop up ahead. Due to delayed reflex and longer reaction time, accidents cannot be avoided.
None of our physical senses works without coordination with the mind. So the eyes will lose their sight as the mind is drawn to an abstract painting of imagery or other mental activities such as reminiscing, imagining or projecting.
The reflex movements of our head, hands, legs, or even whole body prevents shortcomings by dodging or countering movements involuntarily, but they do not move without a sudden alert from our mind. The absence of the mind means delayed involuntary actions which are longer than the speed of the accidental incidence.
-- signal from the mind
-- oblivion
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