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For most of us, these are the most uncertain times we’ve ever faced. The Coronavirus (COVID-19 to its friends) represents the biggest interruption to normal life that we’ve ever experienced. So it’s not surprising that we’re not really sure how to react.
For some, schools and offices are closing, whilst in other places they’re staying open. Toilet paper supplies nationwide are at critical levels. Weddings, travel plans, even huge sporting events like the Olympics are being disrupted or cancelled, and to top it all, the chances of dying from a killer virus have increased by around 0.4%. Nobody could blame you if your plan was to curl into the foetal position in front of Netflix and wait for the dust to settle, but I’d like to suggest another option.
Meditating your way through the apocalypse.
It might seem like a strange time to recommend mindfulness. Mindfulness isn’t going to stop you from getting sick, it won’t re-open stores or schools, and if you didn’t find time to explore mindfulness when everything was normal, there’s a good chance that now, when you’re dealing with massive changes to your routine, potential money worries, and huge lashings of uncertainty, it’s even further from the top of you to-do list.
But being mindful isn’t another job to tick off a list. It is the skill of taking ordinary…
