However there's nothing stroppy at www.coblynes.co.uk, only a heady mix of art and craft, conscious living and creativity.

And I nearly forgot - coblynes is a female goblin. Well obviously.

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Monosodium Glutamate - the flavour enhancer
A previous nightmare returns to an empty place. Lucky fish - herring. Lucky item of clothing - left sock.

Anthrax - the party killer
Do not read your horoscope. Today is like tomorrow. More tea please vicar. Lucky household item - fridge.

'I probably have everything I need'.

I looked at the books on my shelves - 'Yeah, probably enough information for one lifetime there. No need to browse amazon today.'

I looked at the CDs in my collection - 'Oh yes, almost certainly enough great music there for one person. Something for every mood and occasion. I could live on a desert island with that.'

I looked at my family, my house, even dare I say it my bank account. Enough love, enough room, a certain amount of money. Because if you decide that you have everything, there's very little left to buy. Or to want, to lack, to be unhappy about, even if you don't really have everything after all.

There was also the thought, or the confidence that if there was something I really did want, or need, I probably had the resources to get it. Maybe not the money, but probably the means somehow, someday.

I'm certainly not rich. But I probably could be by now if I really needed to be, for what I need to do. Or I probably could be at some point if I need to be to do something I need to really do.

You know I don't think it's a matter of settling for what you have, of doing without or accepting second best. More a realization that if you can be happy now, content with where you are today, right now at this second, you've probably got life sorted out. Just for this instant we call now.

Give it a go. Decide that you have everything you probably ever need, or the means to get it.

Try on that thought for style, how does it fit, what does it do for you, right now?

No, what interests me is the compulsion as a responsible parent to encourage the youngsters to play on the thing, now a personal fitness trainer and all-round force for good.

'Stop! Don't do your homework now! You haven't played Wii Fit yet!'

Confusion reigns supreme.

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Now anyone with less than an hour to spare can choose to be happy, relaxed, and generally up-beat. I kid you not.

It seems that The Mighty Jay is sometimes apt to suffer from, ahem, road rage.

However, after listening to my audio course 'Ask to Relax' he blogged, 'Superb course and well worth the money. If it can cure my road rage it's got to be good!!!'

Magic.

No, I’m serious. It’s easy enough to be happy, peaceful and positive - when you remember to be. But we don’t always get to remember.

Take this morning. I went into the kitchen to make myself a cup of tea. I turned on the tap and blam! I had knocked a filter jug full of water off the worktop. Right onto the floor. Oh man!

Now, I knew who had left it there. I knew that it was far too near the edge of the worktop for safety, and I knew that they always do that and that it was an accident waiting to happen and that -

But hang on a moment, I interrupted my usual reaction when accidents happen - finding someone to blame - did anyone actually die here?

Another part of my self had jumped in. I’d like to call it my ‘sane self’. How would I feel about this tomorrow? Actually I probably wouldn’t even remember the event. Maybe I’d be a little careful next time even. Maybe I could actually even learn something from this...

Luckily for me I remembered to jump in. I remembered that my reaction to events causes my feelings, my relationships and my happiness. I remembered that I make my own happiness.

So I went through a quick checklist:

1 Did anyone actually die here? If not, breathe. Now.

2 Was anyone injured? If so find the best way to help. Now.

3 Did anything get broken? If so clean it up. Decide if you need to get a new one.

4 Does anything need cleaning up? If so, clean it up. Now.

5 Anything else? If not, carry on with your day. Forget about it. Let it go.

See how that checklist takes me out of the ‘find someone else to blame’ reaction and instantly gives me something to do, as well as helping me get a little perspective. It seems to be the perspective that we lose when unexpected things happen.

When we’re in the heat of the moment quite simply, we ‘get carried away’. We see red, get mad, lose control, or a hundred-and-one other ways of simply denying responsibility.

So the next time that you knock the milk jug over try my ‘did anyone die’ checklist. You never know, it might just work for you too.

Remember to let your sane, reasoned self jump in. It might take a bit of practice, and maybe you need to make your own checklist, but I’m pretty sure it can work for you too.

And you might find that your reactions to life’s events cause your own reality.

And that’s a very liberating thing.

Colin Bradhsaw-Jones is the author of Ask to Relax, a simple, effective and empowering technique to control negative emotions and create positive ones. The technique can be learnt simply and quickly. Anyone interested can receive a free lesson at the website: asktorelax.com

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I remember doing at least three double-takes. Utterly discombobulated, missus.

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