Those were the days! – are now looming and apparently inescapable.
Depending on where you live, you may be facing travel and transport restrictions, curfews or lockdowns. Your shops may be closed, or you may be struggling to find what you need in the store. Your kids may be home from school for the foreseeable future, anxious and restless themselves and needing your help. You may be having to work from home yourself, or perhaps you’re a keyworker on the frontlines, facing exhaustion.
If you run a small business, your livelihood may be on the line. If your job is low paid or insecure, you may be worried about how you’re going to pay the rent or the mortgage or the bills for the next several months, and of course, you’re worried about your vulnerable loved ones.
Change of any kind stresses us out. We’re hardwired that way, because our very survival once depended upon being hyper-aware of our changing circumstances, able to adapt to danger and to react to the unpredictable.
Enforced change, on such a huge scale, backed by an undercurrent of fear, stresses us all out probably beyond the kind of stress we’ve experienced before. The good news, however, is that mindfulness can help to ease the stress – and you don’t need to have practiced it before to feel the benefits, either...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...