Integritus Prime

Many of us have been feeling frustrated, anxious, restricted, angry, and a host of other emotions for a while now. We want to get back to normal. Interestingly, there are many things about our previous “normal” that weren’t healthy at all: burnout, stress, addictions to people, work, substances, food, alcohol…and the list goes on.

One fundamental mismatch between the way we’ve been living our “normal” lives and the way Mother Nature functions, is the way we treat change. We change the natural world, and then suffer the consequences of those changes. For example, we genetically homogenize plants and animals, making them and us more susceptible to disease. We alter the climate with our daily animal-product eating habits and greenhouse gas-guzzling transportation habits, and then feel stressed when we feel the effects of extreme climate events.

When a crisis hits, we resist changing our behavior. We want to control things and get them to return to what is familiar (and broken). Change is ubiquitous in Nature; adaptivity is a high form of intelligence. You need only observe how water freezes or evaporates based on how temperature changes to understand the benefits of adapting to reality. If we are to live well in this time of pandemic, we must learn to embrace change.

Control, which comes from fear, lives in the mind. The heart knows better, but we rarely listen, opting instead to remain in a vicious cycle of overthinking, fear and worry. A simple way to re-orient ourselves to our own true nature, and that of Nature, is to return to our heart.

A powerful way to reconnect with the heart, reduce stress, and embrace wellbeing is through Heartfulness meditation. Join this free webinar tomorrow at 6pm PST/ 9pm EST/ 1pm Fiji time or 11am Australian Eastern Standard Time, or contact me for the recordings of previous episodes so you can absorb the whole series so far, and discover this power for yourself.