Cabin fever, divorce from our support systems, a feeling of entrapment, depression are prevalent emotions in our current climate. Over the last year our reality has completely changed. With the onset of lockdowns there has been a rise in the struggle for a healthy mental attitude.
How do we stay optimistic, when we are face with such opposition?
Many have come across my work and my social feed and asked “how do you keep positive?” “How do you continue to be optimistic?”
My answer is creative meditation. I don’t know about you but I always struggled with the idea of meditation. Growing up in India you hear a lot about meditation. What they teach you to do is to empty you mind to get rid of your negative thoughts. Ah that sounds easy but its hard to do, I can’t sit in silence when my children are screaming. How can I empty my mind when there is a hundred thought and worries clogging my mental space?
This was never helpful for me. All it did was make me think about all the things I was trying not to think about. So if I spend all my energy trying not to worry, I would end up spending all that time thinking about not worrying so invariably end up think about that worry.
When you empty yourself of one thing, you open yourself up for something else to come and fill…
