This is an extremely difficult time for each and every one of us, as the number of those infected with COVID is rising at a terrifying rate. It’s a challenge to maintain a sense of calm and well-being when anxiety-provoking news and outright hostility swirl all around us. So I thought I would share a few resources that I’ve found particularly helpful.
Working with the Body
A 30 minute Grounding Hatha Yoga session to Connect with Your Center
A 10 Minute Qi Gong Morning Exercise
4 7 8 Breathing by Andrew Weil
Journaling Through COVID
Journaling as a Tool for Coping with Anxiety
Journaling: A Wellness Tool During COVID
How Journaling Can Help You in Hard Times
Tara Brach, COVID, and RAIN
Tara Brach on Facing Fear [Part 1] – Awakening Your Fearless Heart
Tara Brach on Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart
Tara Brach on the RAIN of Self-Compassion
Facing Pandemic Fears with an Awake Heart, with Tara Brach
A Ten Minute Guided Meditation: Light RAIN in Difficult Times, with Tara Brach
Tara Brach’s Page of RAIN Resources (a powerful exercise)
I hope you check a few of them out and if you do, I’d love to hear how they work for you.
“It could happen any time, tornado,
earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen
Or sunshine, love, salvation.
It could, you know. That’s why we wake
and look out—no guarantees in this life.
But some bonuses, like morning,
like right now,
like noon,
like evening.”
William Stafford
Many Blessings,
Tammie Byram Fowles
Spirituality, Therapy, and the Good Life 