Giving Yourself Love & Understanding During These Challenging Times

As this pandemic has unfolded around us, perhaps you have felt afraid at times, or at least concerned. You have probably had to reshuffle your life in some ways that are good or difficult, or both. Maybe you have put yourself down for getting worried or tried not to think about things that are scary.

As I have been contemplating my own feelings in this situation, I have come to think that both fear and love have a place. If a mac truck is barreling down on you, you get a surge of fear and jump out of the way. The body reacts to protect itself automatically. This pandemic seems to me to be a kind of mac truck that our bodies react to trying to protect us. If fear makes you wash your hands and saves your life, it has its place.
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• So, my thought is don't knock it, and don't beat yourself up for your human feelings. And please don't judge others for theirs. There is nothing more unhelpful than someone disparaging you for being afraid when you are worried. Instead put your worry and fear to work doing what it is there to do, inspiring actions that protect you. 

 

• Once you have taken care of your physical realm, it seems essential to wellbeing to then turn attention to the role of love and spirit. With the realization that beyond the body you are immortal spirit, interwoven and interconnected in the web of life, comes the knowledge that you cannot truly be harmed. 

 

•  For me when I feel the presence of the Divine in me and in ever atom of existence and I let go into the love that is eternal being, I realize I am always safe. In my Divine Beloved all creation abides, rises into existence and dissolves back to the love of essential being. When I open my heart and mind to this Infinite Beloved all else fades away.

 

• As Krishna says to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, all that is happening is already written. When I realize this and surrender into the hands of Lord of Love, in which the whole universe abides, I realize all is well and whole, no matter what happens in this outer realm. In the shower of Grace from the Eternal, we are always held and always whole.

 
Let us pray for those who are suffering at this time and offer their welfare to the shelter of the Lord of Love, the Divine Mother, the Infinite presence. Om shanti, shanti, shanti.
 
With love
Maetreyii Ma