This Too Shall Pass!
There are many ways I see people navigating challenging times. This isn't meant to compare who suffers more or less than others, but rather to discuss deciding how to handle the situation, from personal impact to a global perspective. This article invites us all to consider how we are showing up in our lives and offers inspiration to think about how we’d like to show up differently, more positively.
When we step outside of specific events, we find a myriad of situations, internal thoughts and emotions, and external conversations that surround everything including health, jobs, finances, isolation, education, politics, and collective human suffering.
We can feel bitter and angry, suspicious and fearful, and quite alienated and alone. All of these perceived threats trigger our primitive brain into fight or flight mode and hijack our conscious thinking brain. Putting the biological response explanation aside, it just doesn’t feel very good to have adrenaline and cortisol racing through our bodies with no perceived end in sight.
So, here’s the other side of the coin:
What if, instead of just surviving, we thrive through these times?
What if we move into an anabolic state where we’re compassionate towards ourselves and others, find opportunities everywhere, and feel a strong connection to ourselves and the rest of the world who are also going through this?
What if we could use this time as an opportunity to see how we can help others find better moments, help others feel positivity in the scary?
What if we can use this as an opportunity to develop resilience and self-growth?
What if we developed a love of self and love of others? How about unconditional love for people in our homes and across the world? How about putting aside differences and finding our similarities?
We all love our families, our countries, our animals. We have so much more in common than we ever think of and now we literally have the concept of the value of life as a common denominator right in front of us.
Do we just get through it? Or can we grow and expand internally and externally? We all have a choice. We can choose to feel negative energy and remain in a fight/flight/freeze state feeling in conflict with ourselves and others. Or we can make the shift into positive thinking and feeling and thrive as individuals and global citizens, embracing hope and happiness.
To quote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Into each life a little rain (or shit, as my Mom used to rephrase) must fall.”
It’s what we do with the rain (or shit) that matters.
And then I remember another Mom quote – “This too shall pass.”
If you’re ready to flip the coin and change how you react and respond to the world around you and within you, reach out today. Click the link below!
