This time of CV Lock Down - March 2020
I have been pulling a card each day of the CV lock down from the Gabby Bernstein deck of cards titled Miracles Now. Yesterdays card was – “When I fell blocked, emotionally distressed, or overwhelmed – I turn to my breath”. Today’s card is “I am ready to receive love”.
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There’s a current Oprah-Chopra 21 Day Meditation ongoing series titled Hope In Uncertain Times. Currently on Day 8 – Activating the Hope Inside You. There’s a five day look back (free) to catch up. I have done most their 21 Day series but am finding this one to be one of the best. Go to https://chopracentermeditation.com/experience
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Yoga International offers many free very good programs.
General areas of interest are in the categories of
Move – Meditate – Relax – Breathe,
They also have many very good courses to spend time on.
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Then there is exploring the world with Kelly Wendorf and EQUUS.
Today's email article from her is noted below. You might like to subscribe.
15 WAYS I'M STAYING SANE IN LOCKDOWN (today’s email from Equus)
Kelly Wendorf is an ICF Certified Master Coach. a spiritual mentor, facilitator, horse-woman, published author, poet, mother of two astonishing people, and courageous life explorer. She is the Founding Partner of EQUUS, and the author of the new book Flying Lead Change (Sounds True), released in October 2020. -https://equusinspired.com/
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NONE OF US ARE IMMUNE -- - Jeff Foster
It’s going to be okay.
It really is.
We will face this situation together with love, humour and patience.
We will weep together, we will laugh together.
We will discover togetherness in our apartness.
And the worst of it will end one day.
And we will have learned so much by then.
We will now be called to face very difficult feelings inside of us.
Fear. Grief. The loss of an old way of life. Our devastated plans.
We will learn to face ourselves. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
Nowhere to go except within.
A sacred quarantine.
We will learn to face our boredom. Our restlessness. The part of us that wants to be somewhere else, with someone else, doing something else, having some other experience, in some other Now, living in some other life.
We will let go of the wonderful future we had planned.
We will let the fantasy future die, release it, and grieve it.
We will return to the solidity and warmth of the present.
We will make the present into our home.
We will begin again, here, build a new house on new soil.
We will explore a new way of life.
Strange, at first. But full of possibility.
Slower. Kinder. Quieter.
We will talk to each other honestly about death, and life, and impermanence, and how we feel about all the changes that have come to us and our loved ones.
We will learn to value life a little more.
Yes, perhaps we will learn to value life a little more.
And live with our hearts cracked slightly open to the elements.
And lean into uncertainty, and find our salvation there.
None of us are immune to change.
To rupture. To the shattering of old, familiar forms.
This is the way of things, this has always been the way of things.
From this perspective, nothing has gone wrong.
Crisis simply means “turning point”, and none of us are immune from the turning.
The breaking of the old makes way for the birth of new.
It has always been this way.
It’s going to be okay.
It really is.
We will face this situation together with love, humour and patience.
We will weep together, we will laugh together.
We will discover togetherness in our apartness.
And the worst of it will end one day.
And we will have learned so much by then.
We will now be called to face very difficult feelings inside of us.
Fear. Grief. The loss of an old way of life. Our devastated plans.
We will learn to face ourselves. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
Nowhere to go except within.
A sacred quarantine.
We will learn to face our boredom. Our restlessness. The part of us that wants to be somewhere else, with someone else, doing something else, having some other experience, in some other Now, living in some other life.
We will let go of the wonderful future we had planned.
We will let the fantasy future die, release it, and grieve it.
We will return to the solidity and warmth of the present.
We will make the present into our home.
We will begin again, here, build a new house on new soil.
We will explore a new way of life.
Strange, at first. But full of possibility.
Slower. Kinder. Quieter.
We will talk to each other honestly about death, and life, and impermanence, and how we feel about all the changes that have come to us and our loved ones.
We will learn to value life a little more.
Yes, perhaps we will learn to value life a little more.
And live with our hearts cracked slightly open to the elements.
And lean into uncertainty, and find our salvation there.
None of us are immune to change.
To rupture. To the shattering of old, familiar forms.
This is the way of things, this has always been the way of things.
From this perspective, nothing has gone wrong.
Crisis simply means “turning point”, and none of us are immune from the turning.
The breaking of the old makes way for the birth of new.
It has always been this way.
Love. Humour. Patience. With these things, we will come through.
Stronger than before. Renewed. Ready.
I am sending you all my love, my friends.
- Jeff Foster
Stronger than before. Renewed. Ready.
I am sending you all my love, my friends.
- Jeff Foster
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May you be safe and know love this day.
May you pass it forward seeing others being safe and knowing love.
Richard
