I listened to a podcast yesterday with Elizabeth Gilbert and Chris Anderson and I think many will find this helpful.
I love her calmness, her acceptance and her stories.
"The sense that you had the control is a myth."
"Surrender is so relaxing."
Those two sentences are exactly what brought me peace. I am NOT in control and it brings me peace. I am only in control of my two hands.
The anxiety is believing we are in control, and if you surrender, it will truly bring you into a space where life is beautiful in the midst of this all.
To narrow life down to this moment.
Right here.
Right now.
Today or this minute.
And, she's right in that we are very good adaptation. It is amazing how we find new ways to live.
Her point of thinking of this social distancing as a retreat, I love.
I am not in the space of being home for days on end, and it is leaving me feeling like I am missing the retreat.
I am missing the days of solitude.
The days of being idle.
Of feeling the quiet stillness of being in the world - separated and in the space of being with yourself.
May all who are home alone, find things that calm you down and fill your days of creative ways to be with yourself.
I am in a different space, for I have two places to be; either at work or at home. It has simplified my world - and leaves me in the space of doing more of what I love.
I hope watching this video helps.
Thank you Elizabeth Gilbert
