I’ve learn something new and interesting this morning and would like to share with you all. I’ve been down for quite a long period of time and under an “unrecoverable” depression. I started to try to heal myself by reading more self-motivation books recently. I came across this new things which I haven’t realized before. It’s called “Dog Awareness” and it’s written by Andrew Matthews in his book titled “Follow Your Heart”.

Many times in real life, we are too busy and too stressful to live in the present. We spent time regretting the past, or worrying about the future. Most of us find it really hard to live in the present because we let our mind controlling our emotion and our behavior. Maybe we didn’t realized that but your mind will control you if you don’t take the lead to control it back. So we need to learn to practice mindfulness in order to live a fuller and happier life.

Here is what Dog Awareness about. Take your dog for a walk, you will realize something. Dogs don’t give chance to let anything to pass by, what i mean was it feel so excited and treat everything as new to it. It will stop and smell on every bush, every flower and weed and every fire hydrant. You will notice that the same thing happened if you take the same pooch on the same walk as many as you like. This is because, dogs live in the present.

We human being, maybe we were born too intelligent and like to do things multi task. It safe up time, yes, and you feel more efficient cause you can finish a task faster. It’s unavoidable in certain working environment of course. But when we have a choice, take things slowly and do one thing at a time. You will feel much more relax and you will be surprise the results might be better. When you feel really stressed up and worried, try appreciate everything that you have first. Try eating a meal and tasting every mouthful. Talk to a friend and hear every word, listen to a song and hear every note, eventually you will feel life is much more than rushing for a train, running for the next appointment and get so frustrated when stuck in the jam.

Slow down your steps, stop by and smell the flowers and see how and why other people rushing while you are practicing your “Dog Awareness” :), at one corner, drinking your favorite coffee. On your favorite music or tune into your favorite channel the next time if you are stuck in the jam.

Last but not least, always remind yourself: “I have plenty of time.” Repeat it over and over until it stuck into your head. Hopefully we can practice it together and feel happier in our life!