Romantics, the media and advertising companies (who are now desperate to use the image) were bowled over when a young Canadian woman was knocked down and injured by riot police only to have her Australian boyfriend - barman and stand-up comic, Scott Jones - deliver one of the world's most unlikely, passionate and brilliantly-photographed kisses. (See it here.)
Scott explained that Alex, was 'somewhat distraught' having been caught up, literally, in the ice-hocky riots. He kissed her 'to calm her down'.
We all have times when - faced with stressful circumstances - we find ourselves in an unresourceful state: panicking, going blank, becoming emotional, creating 'drama'.
The conscious mind has a habit of going around in circles and sometimes needs to be snapped out of an unproductive state and into a mood and perspective where progress can be made. There are times when we need to tell our brains: 'STOP! This is going nowhere!' Scott's unexpected kiss had that effect.
A dropped coin on the ground, the sound of a plate smashing, screeching tyres, a fighter jet flying overhead... all of these can distract us from the track we're playing in our minds. Once we are snapped out of it, it becomes more difficult to return to the previous state - the pattern has been interrupted and something must change.
Start today
If a situation or meeting is becoming intense - if you, or someone else, is stuck in an unresourceful pattern - find a way to 'break state'.
If you can't scramble a fighter jet and don't fancy an impromptu kiss, try humour. Even asking something as innocuous as 'do you smell popcorn?' can 'break state' enough to interrupt the patterns in the mind so that they jump to a new, more positive track.
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