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Mother Nature Has Spoken and Sent You to Your Room During COVID-19
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What lessons are you learning during this "time out" in your room?
How do you deal with an abusive relationship or situation? You need to find a way to remove yourself from the situation or relationship and indicate that the behaviour of the other is unacceptable and intolerable. You have to find a way to show that you will no longer accept the treatment you've been receiving.
It’s as if Mother Nature (Mother Earth, Gaia)
is saying “Stop, just stop!" and has sent each of us to our rooms during COVID-19 so that we can think long and hard about our actions and our destructive behaviours. This is a wake-up call to the entire human species. She's expressing that she has had it with our selfishness and total lack of regard for humankind. She wants us to think about why we think the abuse that we’ve been dishing out to one another, the wildlife, vegetation, and especially the oceans that sustain us... is acceptable or should be tolerated. Where did we get such short-sighted ideas? Where did we get the idea that our little 80-year life span (if you’re lucky) could dictate the future for others sharing this planet? Where did we get the notion that we were in control of Mother Nature? How long did we think she would allow our collective destructive ways before her patience ran out?
Mother Nature is saying...
Change your ways.
Stop.
Just stop.
Wake up.
And when you are allowed to come out of your room, you need to demonstrate that you’ve learned from your mistakes and are willing to step up and change your behaviour.
Show that you recognize the suffering of others and are genuinely concerned for their wellbeing. Spot
and turn around sadness, loneliness and neglect. Seek out ways to turn this sadness into hope. Learn how to approach
a range of life’s challenges. Show others that you value them, that they matter. Search for ways to defuse
anger, frustration and suffering. Continually strive to create a better world for all.
What lessons are you learning? How will you show up and act differently after COVID-19?
Photo by Jose Antonio Gallego Vazquez
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