Meditation on Traffic

I got busy talking to my mom and smooching on my wee one this morning and next thing you know...crap...I'm going to be late to work...again. Five or ten minutes, not a big deal. But the clock kept mocking me. I know all the "checkpoints" on the way to work that tell me how likely I am to be late. I know stressing won't get me to work any faster, so I try to concentrate on music and stay calm. Two minutes later I find myself willing the lights green. Then I pictured it - a small glowing green light the shape of an egg right behind my navel, inside me, emanating. When I was calm that light would grew, filling me, surrounding me, finally expanding and influencing the lights to green. A sly smile crossed my face. I had tapped into a secret power inside me.

Ok, sure, it took my glow the same amount of time it would normally take the signal to turn green again to expand far enough for its influence to work...or did it? My calmness sure made it seem shorter. And my checkpoints originally told me I was going to be 8 minutes later to work, but I was only 4 minutes late. Either way, my little egg served as a great meditation point and I went to work stress free. I'll let you be the judge.