Browsing through some health links i noticed  one  titled Happiness, it’s a habit. I did not have time to read the article, yet it had me thinking about the general concept.

Our life is governed by a multitude of unconscious habits we practice everyday of our lives. Most reside quietly in our unconscious and we do not know that we do not know we act on them.

We walk a certain way. talk a certain way, use quotes and quips we picked up years ago. One i know i borrowed from Pretty Woman is ‘Mistake, Big Mistake!” Sometimes walking around the city I will smile as i see young woman walking like a catwalk model. We copy and paste other people’s expereinces into our own lives, integrate them and not realise in most cases what we have done so.

Over the last year i have delivered many peresentations on the material covered in Kissing the Black Dog or from the 25 years in kinesiology and people watching. There is a definite pattern with  people who have become entrenched in their Stress. They seem unable to act in any other way or even open to the idea that there is a life without their stress. Some may have even taken their “love” of their condition to the addcition stage. Obviously there is a payoff, a reward, postive or negative for staying the same.

Their “killer” excuse is usually “It IS Not That Simple” or “You do not understand”

Change is the only constant in our lives and their are those who would rather die than change.

2% of the population Think

3% Think They Thin9

95% would rather Die Than Think

What if we could do things differently?

What if with practice we could move from anxiety, depression, and a life of negativity and let some rays of happiness shine in our world?

What would happen if everyday we practiced smiling, we took the time to laugh at our antics?

Coyote  medicine is an Indo-american philosophy, he is the ultimate trickester, caught up in his own machinations. Inviting Coyote into our lives may lighten our hearts by seeing the humour in our own serious obsession with being negative.

Kissing the Black Dog covers much of what i say about releasing stress.  I know from personal experience stress can be reduced in our lives. Recently a friend asked me to take a 4wd for a drive. It was owned by a man living in NZ and his friend wanted to make sure it stayed in good older. Driving on a out of the way back dirt road a rock pierced the tyre. In trying to change it we could not find the jack and changing gear. During the situation i was laughing on the inside and wondering what amazing things would come from this adventure.

Without the training and new habits i had formed i would have slipped back to my old default position and ‘spat my dummy”. Instead i met some wonderful people and had some interesting discussion.

I had made a choice to change, did the hard yards and reaped the rewards.

We are all capable of change, it comes naturally when we let go of being pig headed (no disrespect to pigs) and learn to adapt, love change and go with our natural flow.