Today as I was driving home from work through some very heavy traffic, I caught myself becoming annoyed with the other drivers. A car would speed by too fast (in my opinion at least!) and I would imagine the driver as arrogant and reckless. Someone would be too eager to get in the other lane and I would imagine that driver as being pushy and confrontational.
In fact, I was even starting to have imaginary arguments with these people. Why do you have to be such a jerk?, I would think. Oh yeah, the imaginary driver would yell back, why don’t you mind your own damn business?!
As one of thousands who commutes daily through Washington D.C.’s infamous 495 beltway, known for it’s parking lot “rush hours”, I can’t be the only one who does this, right? 
It soon occurred to me that I could imagine things differently, and I wondered what it would be like to imagine everyone around me as fellow beings from heaven. I started to imagine all the other drivers, along with myself, as enlightened beings that came down from heaven.
Suddenly the world seemed to lighten up. I then started to extend my visualization to everything around me. Not only were the people from heaven, but we were IN heaven. The cars, the road, the trees, the sky, the clouds. Everything was heaven. We were all in heaven.
Looking at everything around me this way reminded me how to see the world as a child: carefree, light and without worry. The angry people vanished, and I was instead surrounded by serene individuals just minding their own business. In addition to this, I also felt a kindred connection with all of these strangers around me. It was if we all knew each other.
I also stopped judging what I saw as “good” or “bad”. Actually, that’s not completely true. I saw everything as good, and that is because everything felt good. Everything feels good when you’re in heaven.
There goes another speeding car! Oh well, he’s just another angel among us, probably on his way home from work. I bet he’s really looking forward to coming home to his family!
The change in my attitude was drastic, and was definitely a lot better than the negative and needless arguing I was doing before! I’d like to imagine seeing heaven no matter where I am and keep it up for a full day. I’ll have to try that as one of my next experiments with positive visualization.
