Would you let a politician pick your socks everyday?

As we enter into a further period of ‘lockdown’ how is this physical isolation affecting us?

I have particularly noticed a social shift when shopping for food. There are six of us in our home and so food shopping is a twice weekly event for me. I have noticed the way some shoppers seem fairly relaxed about our current situation whereas others are armed with masks, gloves and a look of fear on their faces. I appreciate that we are being told to isolate and socially distance ourselves from one another, but I don’t believe that we need to do this emotionally. Do we need to look at our co shoppers with suspicion as if they might be the one, or can be break out of this place of fear and project love instead?

We keep hearing this slogan that we are ‘all in this together’ and from a spiritual point of view I agree, I feel connected and can relate to people all over the world in this current situation. However, does this mean that we all must behave in a certain way, all isolate, all listen to the same news and the same reports on a loop? We are all being fed the same information and if anything too controversial is put out in the public space then it is soon taken down or removed. 

I have been thinking about the media in terms of cinema and films.
 I am pretty sure that the films that a lot of us have consumed leading up to this have an element of certain disaster or good vs. evil and a someone saves the world theme. It is no coincidence that our minds have been opening to this idea of a pandemic for a lot longer than we realise. So if we are all in this together and we are all thinking the same things due to the information we are processing, what happens to our individuality?

Well for me I have to say I have always been terribly respectful of authority, I was brought up this way. There was always the looming threat of what would happen if I didn’t toe the line. I can recall the first time I was stopped for speeding, I burst into tears because a policeman raised his voice! I guess it’s my nature/nurture combination that makes me this way. And I’m guessing a lot of people around my age are similar, (not all of course). My children’s generation, the millennials however seem to have a different attitude to authority. The other person needs to earn their respect. They don’t just get it because they are a teacher, policeman, politician etc. And so these youngsters are complying but maybe doing this with more reluctance and less fear.

So do we comply with a grudge thinking we have no other option or do we rebel?

I believe we can in this time turn to our inner self and find our true place of safety and security there. If we do the inner work, we become more individualised and we discover how to feel safe, secure and grounded without needing to look externally. We take action on our own thoughts and feelings rather than following others like the proverbial sheep. 

Having practised as a homeopath for over 20 years now, I am conditioned to look at things without judgement. We are taught to be an unprejudiced observer on day 1 of our training. So I would encourage you to work on centring yourself without inner judgement, maybe you would like to practice meditation, chanting, tapping, drumming, or journalling. Find out where your feelings are coming from and work to understand them. Are they from within you or outside of you? Tap into your own individual heart and feel your own emotions come up without any external influence. This way you can keep the feelings that are being pushed onto you at arms length.

Being more connected to your own heart means you can become more connected to others too, this goes back to the shopping scenario. Is there any need for your body to recoil when you are close to someone? Dispelling our outer fears will support the community and boost your immune system. It will exercise your sense of I, your will power and your individuality, the part of you that helps you make every decision you’ve ever made! Would you let a politician pick your socks everyday?

So my question to you is would you rather relinquish all authority to someone who may or may not have all the answers, slowly becoming more weak willed and simply giving in to the powers that be? Or would you rather exercise the will power muscle? It’s a muscle like any other that needs to be trained and exercised. I know that if you do not use the will power muscle then it will become progressively difficult to make decisions later on. 

Imagine if you came out of this knowing your inner self more, with the ability to know exactly how you feel. You may stumble and fall along the way, but the journey will be a rewarding one. I believe that us humans must continue to develop our individualism by working with our I and never giving anyone else the power to control us.