Thanks to Coronavirus
Most people ‘want to change their lives’ after Covid-19 – poll
From the BBC 17 April 2020
“A new poll suggests that most people in the UK will want to alter their lives in some way after the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, only 9% of people say they want life to return to how it was before. Some 54% agreed with this statement: “I hope to change some things about my life and I hope we will have learned from this as a country.”
I don’t know about you but I think this is bloody inspiring news. I had no idea that so many of us feel that way. I certainly do. For me this has been a chance to stop fussing so much and pay more attention to what actually matters. Yes, the threat and danger are serious. That’s often what it takes to really wake me up. Anything less and I’m usually back to same old, same old pretty quickly.
Here’s one of my wake-ups. See if it works for you:
Don’t fight the river, swim with it. When I learned water safety that was the way to survive in a fast moving river. What you do is go with it, and ride that power to safety. Get lost in fear, fight against the flow and you’ll drown. It’s too strong to fight – and Covid-19 is a big river. My Covid 19 wakeup about how that works in life: when I definitely know what I can do to improve my situation, do it. When I don’t know: don’t go on and on fussing about it, building up a thought-storm. That’s just fighting the river, and all the struggling and tension and worrying isn’t helping me one bit. What helps is to accept that I don’t know what to do, and go with the flow of the river. Not to worry, the problems I’m fussing about won’t go away. The solutions will come – no problem lasts forever – and when I know what to do I’ll do it.
If this approach interests you let MYsocial know, and we can do an online meeting about it and how to keep it simple. It might also be worth looking at www.josephbaileyandasociates.com for how easy, natural and effective going with the flow can be. To stop pretending to be a little person (in my case a little old person) drowning in a big river see www.headless.org .
