I’m sure there are a lot of you who have been isolating for a while now. In our home as we enter week 4 I’m feeling lighter than the previous weeks. Strange feelings, emotions and some days tears have been rolling out since this all began and I cannot deny - it has been tough. The sudden feeling of claustrophobia consumed me in the beginning. Don’t get me wrong I love being home but I don’t like being here without having the freedom to leave, travel, go for a coffee and probably the most right now - not able to teach yoga in person. My closest friends know that I do not like to sit still let alone be forced to do so, even in my years of yachting I’ve always disappeared during my breaks or days off and made the most of every minute of my life onboard and absorb my surroundings. So it only became natural throughout all this mess that I would inevitably make the most of this too. You can’t cry over spilled milk, it is terribly unhealthy to live in these times holding negative emotion inside of you. I’m not saying feel nothing, it’s okay to feel afraid or confused, but not dwelling there too long is so important, feel it and then release it, no feeling is permanent, not even in this pandemic.
This brings me on to “habits” - I’ve been thinking and speaking a lot about habits for a few days now. Gratefulness is what is stemming from these thoughts and spoken words, and you know what, I like that feeling much better than anxiety and fear! So I rolled with it. Did you know it takes 66 days to properly form a habit? To have the power right now to be fully in control of creating and recreating personal habits in a world that feels so out of control makes me feel stable in my own life, and some stability is greatly appreciated. I’m almost halfway to having created an entirely new habit and that makes me feel such strength and so powerful. I feel more alive now that I ever have! How are you redirecting your fear/anxiety/anger/frustrations? I encourage you to be creative, to start that project you have always dreamed to, to get that exercise commitment solidified, to making more time for loved ones, to baking more, laughing more and most of all living more.
After all this has been controlled and the curve flattened we have no idea what will happen, how things will be and what will have changed forever. Letting go of what “was normal” and bringing your awareness and attention to the immediate of right now will allow you to expand in ways you never thought possible. Embrace the change. Form a new habit.
“We are what we repeatedly do,” Will Durant.
Namaste xx