Positive journalling to change our minds and the world
Here's the breakdown on the percentage of which coronavirus victims had what underlying conditions:
• Asthma: 4.09%
• Cancer: 8.71%
• Cardiac Disease: 26.54%
• Chronic Kidney Disease: 22.22%
• Congestive Heart Failure: 16.80%
• Diabetes: 37.29%
• Hypertension: 63.99%
• Neurological: 27.38%
• Obesity: 20.75%
• Pulmonary: 14.53%
• None: 4.20%
(Dec 2020)
That’s a helpful way to start off a missive isn’t it? The point is – because of these figures, and as a Type 1 Diabetic I have been isolating for almost a year now.
What have I learned?
I have learned that missing the company of friends and family never goes way.
That face-to-face contact is precious
I have learned to nurture joy in the present moment.
This way we reconfigure our minds away from the sorrow and grimness of this situation, and make the most of this present wonderful moment. The time spent marveling, deeply looking and listening at the object of our rush of happiness helps to create peace and lasting chemical effects. Our neural pathways are re-honed.
Consciously moulding our neural pathways away from negativity into a habit of positivity is helped along the way by positive journalling. It’s another tool in our armour of conscious living.
It feels all very historical: the hideous catastrophic wasteful world wars, Thich Nhat Hanh and his terrible grief in the Vietnamese conflict, Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl - facing a desolate deathly situation is as old as mankind itself. Read these authors and signposts appear on the spiral path through this difficult, endless situation.
Interestingly, we have covered the aforementioned man-made disasters endlessly in our history lessons and our myths, films and stories. Rare or brief was the mention and real exploration of Spanish Flu and its lasting result. How did people cope then? Where are the stories? Why are they lost?
What could we have learned about our relationship with the natural world?
We all die. Let 's go there conscious of the joy of being alive and here together.
Here is my joy-focused poem
The cyclamen sits on the window sill
Shrivelled, dry, withdrawn, grim, ugly
After two weeks
With my love
It flowers
Pink, delicate, fragile petals appear out of nowhere
Like magic
Another world
All it needed was water
And me to notice this
Trees, flowers, children, grass, the stars……
The trick is observing – look deeply , breathe in and breathe out consciously - lengthen the exhale to ration of 4/6 or more do this for two minutes, listen deeply – and then write –
The results does not have to be perfect - just an authentic exploration of a positive feeling.
Wangari Maathai, the great tree planter says, ‘When we experience something pleasant, such as listening to the birds, the insects and the sound of the wind in the branches, we are filled with a sense of well-being’
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Go into the woods today and look deeply at an ancient moss covered gnarled oak, or look out at the sky now and write about the marvel of being alive, here, now!
If we journal these noticings – write about them and explore them – these positive feelings will affect our bodies chemically and then our lives, other people who come into our aura and we will have the energy to live harmoniously and fight for a new balance on our planet.
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Positive journalling to change our minds and the world
Here's the breakdown on the percentage of which coronavirus victims had what underlying conditions:
• Asthma: 4.09%
• Cancer: 8.71%
• Cardiac Disease: 26.54%
• Chronic Kidney Disease: 22.22%
• Congestive Heart Failure: 16.80%
• Diabetes: 37.29%
• Hypertension: 63.99%
• Neurological: 27.38%
• Obesity: 20.75%
• Pulmonary: 14.53%
• None: 4.20%
(Dec 2020)
That’s a helpful way to start off a missive isn’t it? The point is – because of these figures, and as a Type 1 Diabetic I have been isolating for almost a year now.
What have I learned?
I have learned that missing the company of friends and family never goes way.
That face-to-face contact is precious
I have learned to nurture joy in the present moment.
This way we reconfigure our minds away from the sorrow and grimness of this situation, and make the most of this present wonderful moment. The time spent marveling, deeply looking and listening at the object of our rush of happiness helps to create peace and lasting chemical effects. Our neural pathways are re-honed.
Consciously moulding our neural pathways away from negativity into a habit of positivity is helped along the way by positive journalling. It’s another tool in our armour of conscious living.
It feels all very historical: the hideous catastrophic wasteful world wars, Thich Nhat Hanh and his terrible grief in the Vietnamese conflict, Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl - facing a desolate deathly situation is as old as mankind itself. Read these authors and signposts appear on the spiral path through this difficult, endless situation.
Interestingly, we have covered the aforementioned man-made disasters endlessly in our history lessons and our myths, films and stories. Rare or brief was the mention and real exploration of Spanish Flu and its lasting result. How did people cope then? Where are the stories? Why are they lost? What could we have learned about our relationship with the natural world?
We all die. Let 's go there conscious of the joy of being alive and here together.
Here is my joy-focused poem
The cyclamen sits on the window sill
Shrivelled, dry, withdrawn, grim, ugly
After two weeks
With my love
It flowers
Pink, delicate, fragile petals appear out of nowhere
Like magic
Another world
All it needed was water
And me to notice this
Trees, flowers, children, grass, the stars……
The trick is observing – look deeply , breathe in and breathe out consciously - lengthen the exhale to ration of 4/6 or more do this for two minutes, listen deeply – and then write –
The results does not have to be perfect - just an authentic exploration of a positive feeling.
Wangari Maathai, the great tree planter says, ‘When we experience something pleasant, such as listening to the birds, the insects and the sound of the wind in the branches, we are filled with a sense of well-being’ .
Go into the woods today and look deeply at an ancient moss covered gnarled oak, or look out at the sky now and write about the marvel of being alive, here, now!
If we journal these noticings – write about them and explore them – these positive feelings will affect our bodies chemically and then our lives, other people who come into our aura and we will have the energy to live harmoniously and fight for a new balance on our planet.
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