Finding Stability in a Wobbly World

Before I attempt to answer my own question, let’s briefly remind ourselves of the craziness of 2020-:

 

Made in China

The first case of what was later to become known as COVID-19 can be traced back to China’s Hubei Province in the second half of November 2019.

Two months later, on 23 January 2020, China announced a series of strict lockdown measures in the city of Wuhan.

 

The pandemic hits

On the 10th March the World Health Organisation recognised COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

Between two and three weeks later, South Africa and the United Kingdom both announced strict lockdown measures; a practice that became commonplace around the world.

 

Draconian measures

In South Africa’s case the lockdown included unprecedented and, some might say, draconian measures, such as a total ban on the sale of alcohol and cigarettes.

Around the globe, the previously rare sight of people wearing face masks in public became the new normal. Sales of hand sanitiser skyrocketed as access to most public premises was barred without the prior ceremonial cleaning of the hands.

 

Keep your distance

Almost overnight, forms of social greeting that have been embodied in human culture for as long as we can remember, like kissing, hugging and even shaking of hands, became taboo.

‘Keeping apart’ replaced ‘coming together’, as the new mantra.

 

Economic meltdown

The world over, as many small and medium sized businesses ground to a halt for many months, economies sunk into varying states of serious distress, including some that had previously been riding high.

The effect on the world’s middle classes was and is devastating. Those with insufficient resources to cushion the effect of a prolonged period with a diminished income, or none at all, have been dealt a hammer blow.

 

Fat cat heaven in hell

As usual, the poor have suffered the most, as meagre income opportunities and charitable funding sources have all but dried up. For the 10% of the world’s population that find themselves in extreme poverty the battle for survival has become less like pushing a rock uphill and more like pushing it up a cliff face.

Perversely, though, while the vast majority of the population have experienced differing degrees of distress, the ultra rich have been dining out!

At the end of May this year, Forbes announced that the richest 25 billionaires had added a mammoth $255billion to their collective wealth, in the two months after the world began locking down.

 

Winners take us all

They’re not the only ones trying to hide wry smiles as the rest of us struggle.

Big pharmaceutical companies must be licking their mask covered lips at the prospect of supplying a gazillion units of hastily manufactured vaccine, in response to the pandemic.

Communications technology companies are also big winners.

The genuine carers for our planet, distracted by the COVID threat, have been unable to stem a tsunami of infrastructure rollouts and satellite launches that aim to provide blanket coverage for technologies like 5G.

Such technologies are set to unleash a hitherto unknown and largely untested form of electromagnetic radiation that many reports suggest may trigger the start of a new mental health pandemic.

Its clear that from this pandemic there are emerging a few big winners and a great many losers …

A deliberately planned event, perhaps? I’m not going to explore that possibility further here but I suggest it is worth thinking about.

 

A big wake up call

Nonetheless, I do think it is beyond question that if 2020 has achieved anything positive, it has been to deliver a big wake up call to ordinary people like you and me.

It seems we have been provided with a clear signal that the time has come to redefine what we are used to calling \’normal life\’ or ‘business as usual’.

 

The good news

So, if you’re still reading, after this sobering reminder of what we\’ve collectively been through, you may be wondering what the good news is?

Well, working on the premise that you are either a life coach or that you have an interest in life coaching or leading a better life in general, the good news is that there is an antidote for a world that appears increasingly unpredictable and unstable.

It\’s called life coaching 🙂

 

Look out, the answer’s within!

The reason is because life coaching helps us search for answers in a rather unconventional place …

… within!

 

 

The evolution of feelings

The world can seem challenging, uncertain and even frightening to those of us who remain stuck in a mode of external dependency on ‘business as usual’.

On the other hand, for those self aware individuals with a clear understanding of purpose, a mind that is open to discovering the truth and a willingness to explore new ways of looking at life and new ways of doing things, life takes on a new dimension.

Feelings start to evolve:

• from uncertainty to opportunity;
• from dependency to independency;
• from fearfulness to self belief;
• from powerlessness to creativeness;
• from meaninglessness to purposefulness;
• from chaos to divine order; and
• from instability to groundedness.

 

Collective responsibility

Those of us who are life coaches have a collective responsibility to help people awaken to their true inner power and their ability to shape their own destiny and the world around them for the better.

 

Dyer\’s wisdom

The way to thrive in a world that seems – looking outwardly – to be in a royal mess, is to start by finding peace, harmony and purpose within.

Then it is simply a matter of following the late Dr Wayne Dyer’s advice:

“Change the way you look at things …
… and the things you look at will change!”