A wind storm uproots trees and, in the process, offers the opportunity to smaller plants in their canopy to now experience greater light and oxygen and grow up to replace them. Animals experience sickness, death and surrender to the cycle of life.
All this to ask you to look back on your past couple of years. This period of time since March 2020 and the coronavirus turned our world upside down. Think of all of the things that you felt you weren’t going to be able to handle, and that you did! Working from home, taking an online yoga class (and actually enjoying it!), learning to visit from 6 feet away, having to wear a mask every where you went. This is evidence of how adaptable we are and how we can healthfully move through any situation we are faced with when we can adopt a mindset of surrender. This is not to say that on the road to acceptance of our new reality there might not be the need for some (or lots) of sadness, fear or anger (or a wild combination thereof), as healthy transition does necessitate the honoring of the natural normal feelings of grief as we let go of the old in order to be able to welcome the new. Working through the stages of grief, as identified by Elizabeth Kubler Ross (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression & finally Acceptance) are instrumental on our passage through to change. In this way we can greet change without the resistance that causes us to suffer.
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