Ethel tried driving when she was 17 but found it more difficult than she expected and so found it hard to commit. Having known Ethel since she was 3 this was no surprise to me.
So late last year Ethel came back to me much more mature and more determined and with a great work ethic. She put so much effort into her lessons she would leave visibly exhausted and so she made good progress.
Last week she had a not-so-good lesson where she kept approaching junctions fast and rushing into complex stuations. After a light hearted chat she admitted to me, and herself, that this is how she sometimes approaches life. If she is scared or panicky she just "loses it" and rushes headlong, an approach we both felt was not very appropriate in driving.
I gave her a list of possible techniques to try including Thought Field Therapy (TFT), Neoro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Breathing Techniques and Bach's Rescue Remedy, all of which are alternative calming/coping techniques that require no drugs.
So Ethel spent the week examining her feelings and looking up these techniques and came to her lesson today in a positive frame of mind armed with Rescue Remedy which she felt really helped.
The aim was to slow down her approach to juctions to give herself time to think things through and it she felt in the least bit panicky she would shout "help" and I would intervene. This worked so well for her that she had no incidents of panic and also no feelings of "rushing in".The down side is we are not sure if the Rescue Remedy helped, the slowing down on approach or a combination of the two.
But does it matter if it worked?...
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