Have you ever driven the Diamondback? Have you driven the Tail of the Dragon? These colorful names add a sense of drama to these rural North Carolina roads. These roads even come with warnings.
Each of these are known for their curvy roads and spectacular scenery. If you’re a person who loves back road driving through the mountains, they are wonderful.
Each curve brings new scenery and new challenges to your driving. When you see warning signs about low speed limits for the curves, they mean what they say. One person who drove it commented, “Our drive would have been much different if we had followed the warning signs.”
One of the things you learn on such mountain back roads is the importance of your brakes. There are many switchbacks you need braking for in making it through them, especially since these roads include changes in elevation as well.
Having traveled through western North Carolina, I speak from experience. Traveling such roads is fun, yet requires caution as well. On these roads, the brakes are your friend.
When it comes to dealing with obsessive thoughts, brakes are your friend as well. Obsessive thoughts, like going downhill makes things come at you faster and faster. With all the turns of events happening in your life, the obsessive thoughts make it more dangerous.
The best way of gaining control over obsessive thoughts is by ‘slowing down your mind’. A good way of slowing it down is through distractions.
Distractions put brakes on the speed of the stuff coming into your head. Without the distractions, the obsessive thoughts run amok cause accidents of one sort or another. Those accidents range from saying things you regret to finding permanent solutions to temporary problems that you end up regretting.
Life is too short for those kinds of regrets. You’ll enjoy things more when you gain some control over your obsessive thinking.
There are many ways of distracting your mind in those circumstances. At the Restored Lifestyle site you’ll find direction as what kinds of distraction strategies can help.
Keeping It Real,
Jeff
