“Beneath personality and the roles you take on in the world is the essence of who you are as a human being; someone with endless capacity to love and the desire to be happy”
An elephant with long pointed ears and half-closed eyes gazes down calmly at the chaos below. Then we look again. Winds have nudged the elephant away and colours shifted from greys to shades of orange in the morning light. Dramatic change right before our eyes is reassuring when the sun dutifully appears in the sky and sounds take on familiar patterns signaling another day. But anxiety, confusion and a sense of overwhelming crisis can predominate when things change abruptly or in ways that challenge our expectations, beliefs or understanding of the world.
And that’s what’s happening today. We’ve been shaken to the core by unexpected change. In a flash the pandemic, lockdowns, economic uncertainty and the Black Lives Matter movement flipped things upside down forcing us to step outside habitual ways of thinking and behaving. Without lockdowns, which left us vulnerable and raw, we might not have been impacted so deeply by images of George Floyd crying out for his mother, just as we would have in his situation. We might not have felt the profound suffering of dying alone from the virus, or recognised as noble the everyday acts of service from front-line workers.
From complex relationships, tragic events and ethical dilemmas, when faced with crisis the conflict of not knowing what to do, yet knowing we must do something, predominates. Today, the best way to address confusion and other responses sparked by the current crisis is to find enough physical and mental stability to stay tuned in to what’s going on right here, right now and to respond in the best way possible. But how on earth do you do that?
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