Yes this is me, and yes I did ask some unsuspecting passerby to take the picture. Although I'm not sure this was what he imagined when he said "yes, of course".
Absurdity & laughter are such effective means of jolting your logical mind out of its current stuckness.
Laughing can seriously alter your mindset - allowing a shift from a belief that there is nothing else that you can do to resolve the situation - to realising you have more choice than you thought.
Of course, you don't have to follow my lead and stick your head in the sand. Although if you're procrastinating and might describe yourself as such then why not get a sense of how having your head in the sand really feels (safely of course).
This image can also be found, not unsurprisingly, in the Head in the sand chapter of my book Can't see the wood for the trees - landscaping your life to get back on track.
In the book, one means of using absurdity is to play around with the words you're using to describe the current situation - feeling like a fish out of sparkling water never fails to make me laugh.
Or perhaps you can't see the fish for the water, or are going round in oblongs not circles, are stuck in a tree not a rut, or feel like a circle out of a square!
The idea being to keep going with more and more absurd descriptions until you laugh.
Then notice how the shift in thinking has allowed different perspectives and more choice into the situation.
Choice you didn't know was there previously. |
