The white line is a cliff or you can think if it as on-coming traffic, always coming at you. The yellow line is a cliff and the grease line which is in every road is a poison pool. Pick a track; you can have the left track, you can have the right track. If you go out of the left track, you are either going off a cliff, or you are going into the poison pool and you are going to descend to that. Same with the right track. What are you going to do? Pit it and stay in it.
So we want to take or feel the vision and what we have available to us. I am licensed to speak out of both sides of my mouth. Later you are going to hear me say something very different. But we want to narrow it down. So that our focus is in a north-south direction and we have less east-west movement. Those of you going up old stage today, with all if you have lots of east-west movement, wasting energy units. If you were north-south, very efficient going up the hills. Seems to be here. And so it is just another visualization that I use for the motorcyclists. To be proactive, you are in control. You always want to be in control. I always want to be in control. So I am projecting that you do.
You need to be reactive only to the point that allows you get back into control and be proactive. Michael Jordan, going up for a lay up, has visualizes the bungee cord, and the basket, and the ball, sees you coming out of his powerful vision and says, Oh, Oh! I have to react. Reacts just enough to protect the ball, keep you from stopping the ball, re-gets proactive, reaction is done, gets proactive again, puts the ball in the basket. You foul him, he goes to the foul line; three point. Most other basketball players see the opponent coming, Damn! I am going to get fouled. Get overly reactive and just throw the ball up. Yeah they will go to the foul line but get two points but Jordan's got them three.
When we are overly reactive, we loose sight of our proactive decision. You see it everyday when you drive your car. The car in front of you, sees someone pulling out, sees something down the road and they slam on their brakes. That maybe they needed to brake but a slight tap would do. Overly reactive, becomes a dangerous position. If you want to race and race well you have to stay in the proactive position. There is a reason we get overly reactive. Okay, remember I said I talk out of both sides of my mouth? Here is a good time to do it. We get overly reactive when we have menu of options. Isn't broad? And so, oh my goodness! What am I going to do? Wow! I better do this. And we pick the first thing that comes into our vision to do. What? That I slam on my brakes. And now in this situation when we can expand our vision, our menu, we have more choices. Oh! that car is way over there I need to gently slow up. I can do this, I can do that. Now we have the menu that allows us different options.
And some of that comes with our confidence in the skills that we have and some of it is actually trauma related. So if you have ever been in an accident, then this is how you are going to respond because your central nervous system is in a closed loop. Reactive response; okay, that does not come from here. That is something that's literally locked in this central nervous system. It can be let go off with a type of therapy called Somatic Experiencing which is designed for---. Originally, it was designed around car accidents but it's designed for all kinds of traumas, emotional as well. To unlock some of those closed loop central nervous system, things that we have from traumas in our life. So there is always a reason why we have those overly reactive positions. And it is to protect ourselves. Okay, so it is not a bad thing, it is just a thing that with some more can be let go of.
What I am going to say about clarity and power? Because the best way to describe it is in relationship to my son when he was an adolescent, he is 27 now. He has never heard me say this publicly and I do not think he would enjoy it so, Sh! do not ever tell him if you meet him. When he was in his adolescent dark period, that is what I call it. All adolescents go through a dark period; some it is protracted, some it is darker than others. So he was in his adolescent dark period, and luckily it was not long and it was not too dark, and he would do something that would irk his father aka me. And if I ever said to him, that this really pisses me off. I will get back to you on this. Hoof! he did not like that response. Because he knew I was going to remove myself from the situation, I was going to get clear. And when I am clear, I have created space and time which broadens my menu, my options of how to respond. And that integrity gives me a lot of power. So clarity and integrity give you power in your choices. So if you have clarity and integrity in how you live your life, you will find your athletic performances are also going to just shoot up.
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