CHANGE CAN MAKE ONE FEARFUL, ANXIOUS & STRESSED? EXPERTS BELIEVE IT’S GOOD TO BE IN A STATE OF METAMORPHOSIS!

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.”

–Proverb

COVID19 has bought all of us in a state of metamorphosis. Do not know what that is? Metamorphosis is a change in the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one. Change is not fun, easy, or comfortable but what is the choice we have? The goal of metamorphosis is integration and connection to our inner self so that we can re-integrate and return to our roots.

This pandemic can help many of us return to our health, by going back to our roots and staying at home so that we stay safe. Today the Divine Intelligence or God, is giving us an opportunity to reconnect with ourselves. The virus is the great equalizer that is showing us who we really are. Race, gender, and economic status all dissolve in the face of this crisis.  METABALANCE has an INTEGRAL approach and today I would like to remind you of it to use it at HOME.

I           Initiating your potential and Increasing Immunity

N          New Challenges bring New opportunities

T          Treat Time positively

E          Encourage people and Exercise

G          Gratitude & Grow Confidence

R          Rejuvenate by Meditation and Relaxation

A          Acceptance and Affirmations

L          Let go of Fear, spread Light and Love.

A lot of us are feeling isolated, cut off from our loved ones, and terribly uncomfortable with the uncertainty of what is to come. The darkness of fear and anxiety closes in on us.  We ask the leaders, how long is this going to last? How is the economy going to recover? When will there be a cure? What is the real mortality rate? Why weren’t we better prepared? And their only answer is “We don’t know”.

The unknown can be terrifying.

Though nobody knows for certain what is going to happen in the next moment.  But our brains are hardwired for survival, so we constantly look around our environment for threats to avoid or to fight, so that we can survive. We look for ways we can control and feel safe.   What if we let go of the need to know? Let go of the need to control. Let go of imagining the worst-case scenario over and over in our heads, and realize there are many other possibilities, including the best-case scenario.  We need to learn to trust a little more.

Let go of looking “out there” and using this time to cocoon ourselves and look within. Do the inner work, look for opportunities to serve, hang out in gratitude instead of fear, and let go of trying to figure it out.  We just need to become aware. We need to become aware that we are all in this process and this crisis is an opportunity to re-connect to ourselves. Remember the old paradigm of the caterpillar turning into the Butterfly, have faith a beautiful new world will emerge.

Although social media, technology, and a global economy give us the illusion that we are more connected than ever but each one remains totally busy. Our business has left us disconnected from ourselves and our families. We simply cannot heal or be healthy alone. We are designed to live and thrive in the community. Social support, feeling loved, and giving love, all dramatically increase health, wellbeing, and likelihood of healing. Science shows us that loneliness and isolation might be the biggest pre-cursor to disease and dying. Cancer patients who attend support groups survive 50% longer than those who do not.

Remember this is our cocoon time. Let us not say “I am bored”. Let us not escape our feelings by scrolling, or doing online shopping, or anesthetizing ourselves with food, drugs, or sex.  Let us not get sucked into a cycle of fear constantly watching the news. Let us take this opportunity to turn within, connect to our breath, quieten our minds, meditate, write a journal, make music, art, cook, dance, pray, do gardening, or whatever it is that reconnects us with ourselves. Let us feel all the feelings.

We can only genuinely love others, as much as we love and accept ourselves.  What a gift this time is for us to re-connect to ourselves. To turn within, self-reflect, and heal the past. What feelings am I escaping, suppressing, or repressing that is causing me to be exhausted, depressed, hungover, overweight, or sick?

When we allow ourselves to have the INTEGRAL approach and flow with our feelings that we have been denying, we can release and move energy that may have been trapped or stagnant for decades and we begin to become self-aware.  We can pull out of the regrets and resentments of the past, or the worries and anxieties of the future, and come back to living in the present moment. It is then that we become Mindful and can truly connect to others. We need to be gentle and courageous.  This is the paradigm of the butterfly.