Powerful Questions and COVID-19

What questions does your brain have on loop right now?

Are you worried about the future?

Is your brain going to worst case scenario, and trying to figure out how to protect you from it?

This is what our brains do – they perceive danger, and they try to keep us safe. They tell us to run, to hide, to fight.

Our brains think that if we don’t constantly monitor the danger, then we’re going to die.

This is why it feels necessary, satisfying even, to continue refreshing the feed. To keep up with the news each hour. We think that if we don’t know what’s going on, then we’re falling behind and we’re the ones that are going to take the hit.

But what if that’s not true?

What if it’s not necessary to take in all of the information, to imagine the worst case scenario over and over again?

What if there is another place that you can direct your brain to – without just burying your head in the sand and pretending it’s not happening?

Because it is possible.

We can know the facts of the situation, and not get sucked into the drama of it.

We can be aware, and be careful, without reverting to panic.

We can continue to live our daily lives, taking care of our kids and loving our husbands, even through the chaos around us.

Because what if you switched the question in your head from When is this going to end?  To What is this here to teach me?

What can I learn from this and how is this situation serving me?

The answers to these questions aren’t always easy – even for myself, I’ve found how easy it can be to get sucked into the panic. It feels justified, like the right thing to do.

But panic never serves us. Stress never creates what we want in our life.

But asking new questions, and looking at how we are responding to this situation can be so eye opening for ourselves. It can be a chance to view ourselves, others, and all of our humanness with compassion and love.

Answer the questions that are floating around in your brain, all of those ones that are on default.

Give them an answer, some clarity, and then choose to direct your brain to some more powerful questions.

Ones that will serve you more.