Year of the Dragon

The “nurse from hell” discharged my client.  A week later she called asking if I’d like to work with one of her clients since I was so "caring and professional."  What?  I am amazed how this woman softened toward me.  Life is full of surprises.

Booster Night at the Grange I was face to face with the woman who was “out of line” with me and got to hear about it.  I felt the awkwardness between us.  What did I do?  I hugged her and said something about hugging again after another conflict.  It did warm the waters between us.  This is resilience! and has everything to do with living in the moment. 

During a yoga class my eye caught the chakra banner hanging from the wall.  I asked about the chakras and was told we were working with the 2nd chakra... pictured on the banner with a volcano and flying dragon!   

I was introduced to Sennin-So Shiatsu this week.  Ouch!  I definitely needed some de-toxing and will return next month.  I wonder where Dragon lives in this healing art? 

The Assistant Vice President of a local bank was asking me about the United Nations' Happiness Project and I found an article by Timothy W. Ryback from March 28, 2012, New York Times.  Happy to see Dragon is alive and well in Bhutan! 

“Conscious that the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal” and “recognizing that the gross domestic product [...] does not adequately reflect the happiness and well-being of people,” Resolution 65/309 empowers the Kingdom of Bhutan to convene a high-level meeting on happiness as part of next week’s 66th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

An impressive array of luminaries will be speaking for this remote Himalayan kingdom. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will open the meeting via a prerecorded video missive. The Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz will speak on “happiness indicators,” as will the economist Jeffrey Sachs. The Bhutanese prime minister will represent King Jigme Khesar Namgyel, the reigning Dragon King of the Bhutanese House of Wangchuck. (The kingdom became a constitutional monarchy in 2007.)

For the 32-year-old Dragon King — Bhutan means “land of dragons” in the local Dzongkha language — U.N. Resolution 65/309 represents a global public relations triumph and the realization of a hereditary ambition, initiated by his grandfather 40 years ago, to establish Gross National Happiness (G.N.H.) as an alternate model to Gross National Product (G.N.P.) as a measure of national progress.