Our path to healing
I believe when we come out of the Coronavirus event, we will be healthier.
More people are practicing wellness: walking and cycling where they can. Kids are flying kites with their parents. People are creating art. They are filling their windows with colour or teddy bears for little ones to find while on neighbourhood walks. They are painting pine cones and making Easter trees.
People are meditating or joining online yoga classes. Lama Tsultrim Allione, one of the first ordained Tibetan Nuns in the US, was joined by over 1,000 people for her transformative online session of Feeding Your Demons. Over 6,000 people each day join Master Chunyi Lin of Spring Forest Qigong online for morning practice.
People are sending prayers and love and food to strangers. People are eating at home rather than fast food on the road to somewhere. Yeast has disappeared from store shelves. People are baking their own bread again. Kids are learning to cook. Adults are learning to cook.
Families are playing cards and board games together. People are video-chatting their extended families and friends. Strangers are meeting online to support one another. People are looking after their neighbours, the elderly and those who are alone at this time.
We are watching nature heal: skies clear in some places while beaches fill with nesting endangered turtles in others. We breathe the air outside like it is precious. And it is. And it always has been. We are just now noticing.
People are playing music, listening to free concerts online or enjoying the songs and symphonies out their windows from the balconies of their neighbours. People are meeting on the street outside their homes in the morning to join their neighbourhood in exercise (from an appropriate distance). People are bowing to one another in Namasté.
I know this is a challenging time. My intention is not to sugarcoat the suffering. But for a moment, turn your awareness to the beauty. There is so much available now. Wellbeing abounds. It is a global return to wellness. May we continue in our efforts. May we emerge restored.
