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    The Meaning of a Pandemic

    March 22, 2020No Comments
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    By Dr. Marta Adelsman
    Life Coach in Communication and Consciousness
    (March 22, 2020)

    photo_martaadelsman2x216This illness sweeping the world — what is it here to teach us? How does CoVID-19 enlighten us about ourselves? What is its deeper meaning for humanity?

    Look at how quickly it has brought us to our knees! With lightning speed, it has isolated us from one another, struck panic in the hearts of many, disrupted our economy and our medical community.

    The virus plays no favorites and honors none of our mind-imposed boundaries. It has no regard for the social, physical, emotional, ethnic, religious and political walls we, as a human race, have erected.

    We learn from CoVID-19 how much we are connected.

    We miss our stores, libraries, gyms, restaurants, and sports play — all gone from our lives in a flash. The camaraderie and humanity we’ve shared through these societal structures — gone. If we don’t grasp how intimately we are all connected now, we never will!

    Although we can’t touch each other in the usual ways, we can still be in contact through invisible ways — through heart and spiritual essence.

    CoVID-19 teaches and inspires us to extend solidarity across boundaries of race, gender, politics, religion and ideologies. We tap into our human connection when we break into song across balconies and fill empty streets with joyous harmonies (like our Italian brothers and sisters).

    How can we help ourselves weather this hurricane?

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    We can “shelter-in-place” within the Stillness of this present moment. This moment represents a safe space in the eye of the hurricane. Entering its peace, we free ourselves from the anxiety of future “what-if” or past “if-only” thoughts. In this moment there is no problem — only a situation to handle.

    Gratitude helps, too. It strengthens our immune systems. Yesterday I allowed my heart to swell with love and thanksgiving for the warm, furry pup curled up in my lap. When we look with open hearts, we find lots of moments that generate that feeling throughout the day. We can choose to surrender to them.

    Giving lifts us out of ourselves. It can take the form of actions like passing along a home-cooked meal, sharing a talent online, playing music outdoors, writing poetry, etc. We can give away our smiles, our money. When we do, our hearts never go hungry.

    Please join me in practicing gratitude, giving, and inner Stillness. In addition, may we refrain from taking the gifts life gives (yes, even in the worst of circumstances) for granted.

    These practices help us perceive, in ever-deepening ways, our connection with one another.

    Dr. Marta Adelsman is a Life Coach in Communication and Spiritual Consciousness.  She works with people who want to know themselves and their purpose on the planet. If you are such a person, Dr. Marta will walk alongside you to support you to make spiritual principles practical and alive in your communication with others, with yourself, and in your life situations.

    The tools Dr. Marta teaches help you to translate head knowledge of spirituality into compassionate, non-judgmental, life-affirming habits.

    Visit her website, DrMartasMusings.com for more information.

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    The Symbolism of Jan. 6

    By Tommy Acosta
    Don’t mess with symbols. Just ask author Dan Brown’s character Robert Landon. The worth of symbols cannot be measured. Symbols make the world-go-round. Symbols carry the weight of a thousand words and meanings. Symbols represent reality boiled down to the bone. Symbols evoke profound emotions and memories—at a very primal level of our being—often without our making rational or conscious connections. They fuel our imagination. Symbols enable us to access aspects of our existence that cannot be accessed in any other way. Symbols are used in all facets of human endeavor. One can only feel sorry for those who cannot comprehend the government’s response to the breech of the capital on January 6, with many, even pundits, claiming it was only a peaceful occupation. Regardless if one sees January 6 as a full-scale riot/insurrection or simply patriotic Americans demonstrating as is their right, the fact is the individuals involved went against a symbol, and this could not be allowed or go unpunished. Read more→
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