I walked by the television several years ago and there was a guy messing with a dog. The dog was a quiverer. The ones that always have their tail between their legs? I stopped and watched the man lifting the dogs tail up into a position associated with dog happiness. As he raised the tail the dogs head would also rise and his ears would come up. A total transformation in less than a second. I knew I had seen something of the utmost importance and I've never forgot those seconds of standing in front of the screen.

I have been looking for answers to the people problem for a long time and have developed a unified theory as to the cause of all troubles. I'd give you the theory in it's entirety but at around 500 words my keyboard turns into a pumpkin. I am convinced that where social ills and addictive behaviors are concerned we're barking up the wrong tree. We, as a society, at least the mainstream, have no answers. Most of the previously mentioned are in jail or medicated. Science and people have failed to find any thing resembling a solution, to anything, and it's time we stopped living in denial of this fact. Numbers don't lie. You can use numbers to tell lies but that's just a symptom of the same social malfunction. The proof is in the pudding as they say. We either need tails or another way to look at the human animal. Not a new way. We don't have any new problems. When people do find answers to their troubles it usually takes a long time to work through it and get to the other side. Two miles into the woods, two miles out is an accepted timeline for recovery.

I don't see any reason to accept this. I know, from personal experience, that it doesn't have to be the rule. When I got the answer, it was over. Anyway I promised to deliver a fast way out of feelings that we want out of and that's what I'm gonna deliver. Your sitting, standing, lying down, walking...feeling...and you don't like it. I have to figure if anyone knew how to end it fast they would, right? That's when it's time to use the crazy dance. I discovered the crazy dance as a result of sitting at the computer or over some item that didn't allow me to move enough. I would stand up and walk but it didn't seem to help much. I would get these painful legs from sitting and found that if I stood up, stuck one leg out and just shook it as hard and fast as I could, the feeling in the leg would change. Replaced by something good. So I'd shake the other. I started to think it would be nice if I could just rattle my whole body like that and fling all the heavy energy out of it. So I tried it. It kinda worked but I wasn't getting the same results I got from the single leg thing. So I really let loose. Arms, legs...just going crazy. When I included my head in the dance that's when things really shook loose and I named it the crazy dance. It has to be done with complete abandon. You can't be cool and do the crazy dance. You have to go wild. Everything has to flop and rattle until you lose your balance and know your about to go down. If you go so bananas that your ears start floppin' you've achieved expert crazy status.

I know you want to fly out of the chair right now and get to it so I'll wait. You can also incorporate the happy dance in to your life and it's a fine way to celebrate when you want to express gratitude for being you. My daughter taught me that one and I still do it. It's a little more complicated and would take longer to explain. Since I have the typing skills of a bear that's no walk in park for me (make one up). If you look around, at life, you'll find that the crazy dance is nothing new. I found it, I didn't invent it. You see animals doing it. Kittens, foals, kids and calves all have a version of it. Children probably remember it...they've always been one of our societies wasted resources. Ask them. The best part of finding and doing the dance is it shows your brain that there are quick solutions to things. I don't think we're so far in the woods that we should be sad about it. I doubt there are any real woods to get in to. In truth we don't have any woods out there, only our own forests of thought. We spend our lives in the pictures we make, therefore nothing is ever beyond our grasp or control.

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