Five Simple Steps to Embracing Spring 2020: A time for growth and new beginnings

We embrace what we are mindful of. By being around those that we love, our families, we become even more conscious of their presence in our lives. Mindfulness. Being conscious of what is around you and available to you and truly understanding it can disappear.

Here Are Five Steps to Embracing a New Chapter

1)      Limit Consumption:  Life is lived in abundance for some of us. This is a blessing, to have what we need and want at our finger tips. Now, is the time to limit unnecessary spending - online shopping has increased dramatically, as the need to stay indoors during a quarantine or because major department stores and businesses are closed.  During times like these, Online shopping is useful, especially as the need for house supplies- food, cleaning supplies, medicine, etc) are increasing and physical contact with others decreases. Forget the junk food and get what sustains the body like proteins and oils. Drink warm water with lemon and be grateful for what you have and be ready to give and become a helper in these uncertain times.

 

2)      Understand and create ways to have constant communication with others in your life outside the immediate family. Create meaningful exchange. Try to understand everyone’s current state rather than assuming. Health for some, can deteriorate quickly. Let them speak and share and be empathetic towards everyone, including yourself.

 

3)      Read More.  Read inspirational stories and learn more about your faith. Practice it daily. You can create a routine with reading built in or be spontaneous about it and read when the mood strikes. Try to have reading material in mind and available to you so you don’t spend your motivated energy on searching, but rather learning.

 

4)      Learn a New Skill. Try to understand the useful knowledge behind its importance. Share what you learn. Take time to really become an expert in something that can help and benefit others.

 

5)      Be Corporative and Compromising. Speak in a kind and gentle manner with those you are around, and understand what needs to get accomplished and help with meeting individual and the ultimate goal of keeping healthy and surviving. Encourage unity in your homes and amongst each other. Having routines for every member can help create better habits that can create a better and more useful outcome for the family unit. Everyone should help out and assume different responsibilities as they present themselves. Time to really look at what we are eating and how it is affecting our bodies. Self care and awareness becomes key to staying healthy and having positive health. Worrying can compromise our immune system so be conscious of creating positive thoughts and experiences.

We all live life with different priorities, although health and taking care of your family and loved ones, should always the number one. To have health and the mere ability to move frequently, eat healthy, and have positive emotional health is of great importance. As with good health, the mere ability to breathe peacefully on your own, provides one endless opportunities for one’s life. We can’t control the future but we can control our response to whatever happens with grace and kindness to those around us. This chapter in your life and in history will be memorable.