It seems to be that time of year when our eight legged friends begin to feel a little nippy and move in with us. Of course to many they are not 'friends' and finding one of these in the bath in the morning can be something of a fright. Personally and if I'm really honest, I've not been terribly keen either, until recently that is.I pride myself on being open minded and recently challenged myself to look at our new house mates in a new way. Rather than screaming, running, squashing or mashing I decided to look. After really looking and noticing the amazing colours, shades, tones and patterns I began to watch. It then seemed rather silly that I'd been so afraid of these tiny, delicate and amazing creatures.
I was recently at some training which was about something rather pretentiously called 'Neuro Linguistic Programming'. Wikipedia (totally reliable fount of all knowledge!) describes NLP as being 'concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behaviour and the subjective experiences (esp. patterns of thought) underlying them.' Why do I bring this up? Well I realised that if by simply changing the way that I imagined and thought about something (spiders) then I could change my experience of it. I recently applied the same mental discipline to my unrequited desire for some time on my mountain bike. Rather than seeing a bike ride as being a selfish act that confirms my lack of fitness or free time, I decided to imagine myself enjoying the open air with a smile on my face and the wind in my hair. Simple I know but it totally changed the way that I felt when I thought of going for a ride. Before I knew it I was off and loving it! These little victory's made me think that anything was possible and within reason it is!
