Traveling

Day 93
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Use the power of the Universe by intending before every car trip
that the traffic will flow effortlessly, that you will be relaxed and
happy, and that you will arrive in perfect time.

Happy Driving!

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Traveling Can Be a Nightmare - Or It Can Be a Dream.

I'm not the best traveler at the best of times, but I've learned how to make it a pleasure.

Three weeks ago my husband and I were preparing for a visit with some friends of ours on the Ilse of Mann. I was excited about the visit but aprehensive about the trip, which entailed more than driving; it also included taking a ferry from Liverpool across to the island in the middle of the Irish Sea. It's not that I'm a bad seafarer - I have pretty good sealegs, having done a bit of sailing in my time - rather that the crossing was to be at night and the weather was overcast; I'm a hopeless traveler if I can't see where I am going.

On the morning before we were to embark upon our adventure - visiting the IOM is always an adventure - I started my day with a leisurely bath. Relaxing in hot, perfumed bubbles always helps me to think. I made up my mind I was going to concentrate on having a wonderful time.

"You give birth to that on which you fix your mind."

Antoine de Saint Exupery

As I prepared and packed for our trip, I kept my mind on what we would see on the way over to the island: the Liverbirds welcoming visitors to Liverpool, the Mannanan (ferry) coming up the Mersey to meet us, the muddy Mersey river flowing out to sea, the wind farms on the sand banks off the Wales coast up towards Anglesey, the man-statues on the beach north of Liverpool as you pass down the Mersey channel before heading out to sea toward Douglas.

As it turned out we were sailing on the incoming tide and it was quite dark when the ferry came up the river to berth. When we left the Mersey, once the lights of the Wirral were past, there wasn't much more visible except for the lonely buoys marking the channel, or the odd passing fishing or cargo vessel or lighted gas platform, until the lights of Douglas came on the horizon, at which stage I became even more excited than I already was. We were almost there when I realised I had not been even vaguely anxious since I left home - and I wasn't going to start when our destination was so close.

It just goes to show that what you set your mind upon manifests itself in reality. It's also worth spending a little time calming the spirit before a potentially anxious event. It works for me!

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