Now Is the Time to Change your Habits
Since the country—and much of the world—has moved to ‘social distancing’, working from home, canceling public events, and avoiding crowds to prevent spread of the Coronavirus, many of us find ourselves thrust into new situations.
This can feel disconcerting and stressful—not having our familiar routines and with many of our go-to places shut down; having to develop greater awareness of ways to avoid spreading the virus; and worrying about where this will lead and when it will end.
But this time of pandemic when our lives are changing dramatically—for weeks and perhaps months—is also a time of opportunity. It is an ideal time to change our habits: to develop healthy ones and let go of those that don’t serve us.
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Cultivating Healthy Habits in Turbulent Times
Have you noticed how often you touch your face? With the spread of the Coronavirus, we’ve been told many times that avoiding hand contact with our face is essential to prevent the spread of the virus and we are paying more attention to this habit and trying to change our behavior.
The problem is that these healthy behaviors are habits that we need to cultivate and, as we know, habits are notoriously hard to develop and change.
In order to develop healthy habits, we need to bring them into conscious awareness—we need to be mindful of them. Mindfulness is a key to habit change because it makes behaviors that have become unconscious conscious. Once we are aware of them, we are in a position to make a change.
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Reflections as we go into the fight of a lifetime
If there was ever any doubt that Donald Trump would be willing to go deeper and further into racism, bigotry, and division to cement his base of support and stay in power, the events of mid-2019 have safely laid those doubts to rest. Trump’s ‘go back’ to your ‘crime-infested’ countries slurs to four Democratic Congress members of color confirm his intention to sow racial and other divisions as a conscious strategy to repeat his 2016 election victory in 2020.
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