Here’s an activity for your kids (and you!) to get out of a RUT! The Power of Visualization!
Purpose: Find a strategy to get out of your rut.
Instructions to you:
Visualize – Get out of a Rut
Dr. Lynn Hellerstein’s visualization
Imagine this scenario:
It’s 10 degrees in the middle of January, and the snowfall is accumulating quickly. The temperature is falling, the roads begin to freeze, the visibility steadily decreases and you’re driving to your child’s school to pick her up. Hurry, you’re late! Your child is waiting for you.
Was she dressed warmly enough? Will she be able to stay inside the
school until you arrive?
You are worried, stressed and are rushing to pick her up. Before you
realize it, you’ve slid off the road into a ditch. You’ve left your cell
phone at home and no one is around to help you.
What do you do? Panic? Get out of the car and start walking? Hope
that someone stops to help? Relax and hope for the best? Have
you ever been in a similar situation?
Let’s get back to our story. Your car is now stuck off the side of the
road. The engine roars as you try to build up the momentum to
move your car forward. The smell of burning rubber permeates
the air as your car wheels spin, but your car just keeps digging a
deeper rut.
The visibility is so poor you can hardly see the hood of your car.
What shall you do now? The car just won’t move forward.
Stop for a moment and take a breathe.
Allow a picture to form in your mind of all the options you have.
You could choose to stay buried in the snow, and hope someone
rescues you.
Instead, how about creating a strategy to move out of the rut? Consider
trying something different. Just sit for a few minutes and breathe
deeply. Be aware of the tightness and tension in your body. Aha!
What if you tried to rock the car backwards to eventually move it
forward?
Picture yourself putting the car in reverse. Slowly step on the gas and
rock backwards. Then quickly shift to drive and rock forward.
Continue visualizing this back and forth motion until you are
eventually out of the rut.
State to yourself, “I am a safe driver. I can do this.”
Now try it! Good chance that you can eventually rock yourself out
of the rut. (Sometimes we have to go backward to move
forward!)
A pioneer in vision therapy and developmental optometry, Dr. Lynn Hellerstein is the founder of Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, PC. For more than 40 years, she has helped thousands of children and adults improve their vision and transform their lives — at home, in the classroom and on the sports field.
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