Life Isn't Canceled!
Are you waiting for this whole COVID-19 "mess" to go away so you can go back to your life again?
Do you feel like you are in a prison cell with your hands tied?
I was listening to my favorite podcast the other day by my coach Brooke Castillo and she was reading a letter by one of her coaches Lisa about how there is this “sense of suspended animation until things get better again or go back to normal.” It really struck a chord with me.
She goes on to share the following insightful words that brought me to a standstill and got me thinking long and hard about how I want to LIVE my life during these coming months:
“Waiting it out feels so imprisoning. Making the best of it feels so limiting. They imply needing to wait for things to get better.”
"This is now. This is our present moment and rejecting it or numbing through it or padding it with hope, which again, invites waiting for something better, is missing such a sweet, raw, vulnerable opportunity to inhabit our lives now, like we never have before...Our future exists only in our mind right now. Our bodies and brains are in this moment. How can we live in this moment fully without labeling it as the suspension of the normal?"
"One way I’m doing this is considering, as I’ve already said, what I would be doing now if I came to Earth for the first time right now and this was apparently the way things were on Earth, that nothing was wrong, that nothing had to change..."
"One thing that’s really relevant to me is thinking back to 2017 when my dad died suddenly. The period of grief I went through felt as natural and right as anything ever had. I did not question myself. I did not think or even want to feel any other way. I had to relearn my life through grief. “Oh, this is what washing dishes is like when I’ve lost my dad. I look back on that time as a pivotal moment in my life when I stopped trying to escape and just settled in.”
“Lisa, I don’t need to add to that. You said everything in that so beautifully, and I feel that so strongly for all of us. There isn’t life waiting on the other side of quarantine. This isn’t - and even those of us who are really going through different kinds of tragedy and trauma and freaking out, all of that, that is life."
"Life isn’t when everything’s good and normal and safe all the time. That is not what life is. Life is all of it mixed together. All of the amazing, wonderful great times, and the anxiety and the pain and the terror. All mixed together. It’s the abundance and the scarcity. It’s the fear and the love. It’s all of it."
"So thank you Lisa for reminding us that this is life. Life isn’t going to start up again. Life isn’t canceled. This is our life. So step into yourself within this life."
Well, I’ll leave you with that for today. So how are you going to step into it?
If you want to hear these powerful words directly visit Special Episode Moving Forward 4 (minutes 1:00- 5:30).
Let me know how this resonates with you.
Sending you love and light.
Warmly,
Melody
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