When life feels limited, it can be easy to feel restless or constrained. This gentle reflection explores how to find freedom through small choices, inner spaciousness, and the imagination. Read More>>
Take someone who doesn’t keep score,
who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even in
his own personality: He’s free.
Jalal al-Din Rumi
This is someone who can just be. Do I just want to ‘be’? Having no agenda is good and very relaxing. But I came into this body for a purpose. I am afraid I may fail, so I am not fully the person Rumi describes. All I can do is my best. No-one can ask more of me than that. No-one seeks to fail.
Is Covid-19 creating a burning platform for change?
While it may not go away totally and we will have to learn to live with it, Covid-19 has forced us to change the way we are living and to consider what is important to us.
Loved ones are at the top of our prioritises – not unsurprisingly. Leading a simpler life has been a new experience for some and has made people question whether they need all of their ‘things’. Nature is valued more. Relationships and happy experiences enrich our lives.
Uniting with loved ones through a simple walk in the park or over Zoom has become acceptable.
Should we look at Covid-19 as our friend and work with it to facilitate change or should we regard covid-19 as our enemy and fight with it?
I have hotly debated this with my friends and we came to conclusion we should face our fears and step into our own power to work with the Covid experience to facilitate long term change for the good.
This does not mean we will be foolish. We will take all of the sensible precautions but we do not want to live our lives in fear or feelings of loneliness. Each of us are responsible for our own physical and mental well-being.
I have been surprised by some of my friends who I would regard as ‘non-spiritual’, now seeking out spiritual practices as a result of their Covid experience. They have learnt to seek within and have been pleasantly surprised by what they have found. All those external pleasures like
big houses and fast cars are not needed for a rich and happy life.
Life is for living and enjoying
Yet it is not always easy to do this. Life can feel full of challenges.
No-one has everything.
Some people may appear to be wealthy and happy but if you follow them home, there may be challenges of fidelity, not being able to conceive a child, health problems and fear of loosing their wealth, position or power. In my experience everyone has at least one challenge in their life as we try to learn our life lessons.
How you respond to your challenges determines who you are and how you live your life.
Many feel constrained and frustrated by their life. To help alleviate this you can go within and explore your inner landscape. There are no constraints there. You can sore as high and as fast as the bird in my picture and feel the speed and exhilaration of freedom and space.
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Many people feel constrained in their life. Â It can be for many reasons – a relationship, job, where they live……
However we are in charge of our own life and what we do with it.  The world is at your feet and you can decide how you want to live in it.  Oh I hear you say; I cannot do that because……
