GreygirlGarden: Driving the Bus

Help with understanding and getting a better view of a problem often comes from the use of a metaphor, story, rhyme or phrase.

So here's a metaphor for you.

You are driving a bus and it is full of rowdy passengers (your thoughts) who won't shut up and are all talking at once. Not only are they criticising the way you are driving, they are also telling you where to drive to. Does this mean you are incapable of driving the bus at all? No, because by keeping your eyes on the road you focus on the job in hand (driving the bus) and can block out the many conflicting instructions and criticisms thrown at you.

I often have a bus full of noisy passengers who have it in for me. They all shout and try to undermine anything I am trying to do.

Sometimes the only way to deal with them is to drive into a garden and just get off the bus, sit down and rest awhile.

You find yourself becoming absorbed in the colour of a tulip with its impossible depths, textures and nuances. Your eyes follow a bee going about it's business and soon you have melted into another place entirely, where all you have to do is look, and there is nothing shouting at you.