For quite a while I was dwelling on whether I should or should not write my take on of the current global situation. At the end the inner voice won, as you can see.
My biggest lesson of this pandemic is, it is not about the situation, it is how you deal with it. And you can only deal with it by making decisions based on love or fear. For most people it is the easiest way to slip into panic and fearful mode. It is easy because they practiced it for so long, almost their whole life therefore even contemplating about thinking more open-minded and solution oriented way of thinking is so damn difficult for many because they never practiced it before. It requires way more energy and mind focus. Think about it, if you use your right hand to brush your teeth every single day it would be so difficult to try to switch it to the left one. This happens because we are creatures of habit, we love rituals and we hate to change them because it is so easy to stay in the comfort zone. But right know we are getting the crash course of living out of our comfort zones. And isn't that great news? Isn't it better to become more flexible more adaptable? That is something that nature and evolution are teaching us over years but seems that we still haven't mastered that yet. Being opened minded and flexible doesn't mean avoiding the situation and neglecting it. It is crucial that we accept the situation the way it is. Acceptance is always the first step towards major change. You cannot change something if you don't fully accept its presence.
''Acceptance is always the first step towards major change''
Ok, so what now? After accepting it, we need to ask ourselves what is this potentially teaching us? Because it must teach us something, otherwise it wouldn't appear in our reality. To me it appears that this pandemic is teaching us about the importance of respecting nature. We totally forgot how to respect our planet. By doing that we also forgot how to respect and love ourselves. There is nothing outside of us. How you treat yourself is how you treat everything and everybody. Your life is pure reflection of your believes which turn into behavior. So nature gave us a favor now to stop for a minute, let her rest a bit and reflect on how can we make this existence on Earth more pleasurable and respectable for all of us in the future. This collective decision could never be made before because everything was just about being busy, not stopping for a second, not letting yourself to take time on a daily basis and take care of yourself. Taking care of yourself is respecting yourself. And by respecting yourself you respect everything around you including the planet we live on.
''Nature gave us a favor now to stop for a minute, let her rest a bit and reflect on how can we make this existence on Earth more pleasurable and respectable for all of us in the future''
So now that we are mostly at our homes and have time that we never had before due to our way of living, thin about how can you improve your way of living. What can be done with more ease and fun? How can we improve our relationships? Ask yourself, what is really what I would love to do more on a daily basis? You might be surprised what can come out as an answer. It can be anything from cooking, baking, doing cardio dance more often or changing your career trajectory.
For this type of deep reflection taking time stillness is so essential, and guess what, now we have plenty of it. If each of us individually would think about how can we improve our lives and live more aligned to our values this will reflect on our reality and trigger global positive major changes. That is why I like to see this whole situation as an opportunity and not something to be so fearful about. We went trough so many things historically, this is not the first time that crisis happens, but now we have a chance to act differently and make the best out of it. And most importantly, this starts with each of us individually. Stop waiting for other people, government, society to manage your life, you have all the power to create your life on your terms. So take back that power.
Natalija
Photo credits: Dr. Mathias Schacht
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