Old adages fascinate me. An old family friend had a comprehensive library of old wives tales that he was happy to trot out at the most appropriate time year in year out. You could set your watch, and calendar, by his cheery announcement of "never leave off a clout til may is out". If he were alive today he would repeating it in all sincerity followed by a huge I told you so. Yesterday was glorious so I left off a "clout", I tried to do the same today and am sitting here freezing!
I have always dismissed this "wisdom" as uncorroborated wives tails, today at my peril.
I could also be equally misguided about "being happy as a pig in shit"! Scientists at Bristol University have found a link between a friendly bacteria found in soil and increased levels of Serotonin. A lack of serotonin can be the cause of depression, there could also be a link between mood and the immune system. I guess it could account in part for why me and my cohorts laugh uncontrollably when one of us falls of our bike into (what we hope is) mud on our regular jaunts across the Berkshire/Oxfordshire countryside.
As a coach I am acutely aware of the mind body link in that what you think or feel has a direct relationship to how you behave and that a change in behaviour effects how you think and feel. I have learnt to calibrate minor changes in behaviour, physiology and language to help me get behind what could be blocking clients, it now appears that it might be worth developing a scanner for both friendly and unfriendly bacteria that could be having an influence on the success of my coaching sessions?
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