What Happened to 2020?
Wow. It has been a rough start to say the least. This year presented itself with an enormous amount of change, turbulence and unknown. However, we are always in control. Always remember and stand firm in the fact that no one can make you feel anything or experience any emotion aside from yourself. Not even 2020.
As with anything and everything, I cope by challenging myself to find ways that I can find the silver lining amid a crisis. Finding the silver lining is good ole’ cognitive therapy 101. I am choosing the direction of my perspective and focus by managing my automatic thoughts.
I am also choosing to throw in some practices of mindfulness based cognitive therapy by being aware of how I am feeling, acknowledging it and shifting the focus to gratitude which then elicits positive thinking.
In crisis, we must have hope. When hope diminishes so do, we. Think about the last hardest thing you’ve ever faced in your life. I bet while you were in the middle of it, you had no idea how you were going to get to the other side. Where was the light at the end of the tunnel everyone speaks of? Where were the footprints in the sand? It is so hard to grasp onto the positive when you are in the beast of the belly.
But guess what, you are out now, and you will come out of it again. Just because we come out does not mean we will come out unscathed and without scars and bruises. No worries, in time those can heal. We can rise through the spirit of growth and acknowledgement that we came out of it because we chose to come out.
And If this IS the most challenging thing you’ve ever faced then feel comforted to the fact that you are not alone, and we truly are in this experience together. Surround yourself with positive content, energy and words of encouragement.
Find the things to be grateful for daily. Even the basic of the basic. If you did not get out of bed today because you were so depressed, okay that’s fine. But you woke up! There is gratitude all around us. And that elicits hope.
So, what did happen to 2020 exactly? Noting. I think it is right here, right now. Perhaps our “idea” of 2020 did not happen. We have the tendency to project our expectations onto things and how they should be, what they should look like. When it doesn’t happen, we are taken aback. We have had our moment of being taken aback. Now it is time to readjust accordingly.
Love & Light, -E
