How IFS Saved My Life
Ever heard of a throttle body cable? Me neither!
Entering the Edens Expressway, as I accelerated from the Foster on-ramp to merge, I was suddenly transported into the movie Speed!
Unbeknownst to me, the throttle body cable of my 1998 Volvo S70 malfunctioned.
I shot up to 90 miles an hour on the highway with my brakes to the floor! And accelerating.
While simultaneously having a psychological stroke and heart attack, I immediately became extremely calm while dodging other cars and trying not to crash. I dropped deep within myself.
I began very slowly, slowly moving my right hand around the car. Should I turn the ignition off? I worried my car would stop so suddenly it would flip over.
My hand hovered over the shift knob. Should I move it? My hand felt guided by an unseen force to press the knob and move the shifter, while I was driving, into neutral.
Apparently, this is what you’re supposed to do if your throttle body cable malfunctions!
But I had no idea that is what you’re supposed to do. I was literally guided by God. And somehow by getting very still and very quiet and very calm in the midst of the most terrifying of life-threatening experiences, I was able to channel this information.
My car decelerated and began functioning normally. I called D & R Autoworks in Highland Park and scheduled my car for emergency engine surgery STAT!
In the middle of an extreme crisis on the Edens Expressway, IFS saved my life.
By giving you access to the deep, core calm and presence of Self-energy in the midst of an emergency, IFS CAN save your life, too!
Very scary story but I love the tie to ifs, recently discovered it and coherence therapy through Dr Tori Olds and I similarly feel as if it has saved my life, or at least renewed a sense of aliveness that I had thought dead and gone.
I know exactly what a throttle body cable is, but I didn't think newer vehicles had those any more. EFI engines don't use them. I do remember on my mom's old 76 Buick Skylark, that froze one day while I was at school and the temps were -40. Even though it the block heater was plugged in, either the cord was not working or it made no difference; that poor car revved it's camshaft to death. I limped it over to pick up my brothers from school, but that was the end for it. That engine was one that didn't have many of them made so parts were pretty much non-existent even by 1991.