<< The mindshift

 Just before last summer I was under very intense pressure. Not only was I dealing with a lot of personal issues, but to top everything up I had now a pandemic on the doorstep. An event so large that I couldn’t even really grasp its meaning back then and I knew it. 

I just didn’t have enough mental capacity to understand its consequences and what it would mean for me personally or for the people in my life. I remember feeling it was important, but also a bit  like swimming in the middle of a vast ocean. Not really much to do about it.

This feeling extended well through the summer and into winter. As anyone that lives in Scandinavia knows: Winter is a terrible time to be under emotional pressure. And here I was and the supposition was now a reality. The question became “how will I deal with this?”

Sure I had gotten back on my feet rather fast thanks to Peterson’s: 12 rules for life. But this was slightly different, I needed new tools. Around mid winter though, Netflix released Puddicombe’s: Headspace guide to meditation.

I had never tried anything of that sort before. But I also had never been in a pandemic while settling down before. So I made the best of it and over the course of the release week, took to heart the short meditations offered by the episodes. Not long after seeing the last episode I had bought his book too (The headspace guide to meditation and mindfulness).

I think now that what I went through was a mindshift. It’s completely natural that as we move through life we will find things that upset us and force us to change. This change can often be painful as we try to fit it into our conception of the world.

What we need to be aware of then is that in those moments what matters is: how we come to term with those changes and what we do about them. And this will make all the difference.

It was not easy at all by any stretch of imagination; in fact, life itself hasn’t probably changed much since this realization. But, as I placed life through a different lense and made the most out of what I have, I began to take control of everything that goes around me and from there: thanked more, flowed better and perhaps became one bit better as an individual.

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