Isolate
ISOLATE = to set or place apart, to detach so as to make alone; quarantine
QUESTION: Do you feel isolated in any way?
Image: Heather Williams, H.W., M.
STORY: For three years (2020 to 2023), the covid pandemic caused people around the world to feel isolated. Children sat at home alone. Adults stayed 6 feet apart. People in big cities with millions of people felt isolated. Isolation weakens our relationships. I thought about people sitting in jail, in hospitals, or living alone in their apartment. I thought about store owners who had to close their business. I thought about young people working at home alone with their laptops. I wonder why it is that the World Health Organisation (WHO) claims that we will soon see more pandemics, more mandates, more isolation and more new EUA (Emergency Use Authorized) vaccines. Fear is an ancient tool that has been used by totalitarian leaders for thousands of years. Fear weakens people and makes them compliant. Do you know that there is a Higher Self that is available to you every minute of every day? It does take some WORK to let go of our physical-ego-separate sense of self and awaken to our INNATE ever present True Self that lives within us all. If you are interested in doing the “WORK” of remembering your True INNATE Self - get the book, Self Observation by Red Hawk - and come to my Friday online Zoom WORK Chamber. Learn more: https://www.drawingtogether.com/workchamber
QUOTES
“No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot exist in isolation.” ~ Krishnamurti
“Too much of a self-centered attitude brings isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.” ~ Dalai Lama
“The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.” ~ Ingmar Bergman
EXERCISE
STOP.
Sit quietly. Assume an erect posture.
Sense the breath.
Sit calmly and know that wherever you are - Spiritual Principles are flowing through your body and mind.
Get your pen and paper and write words or draw lines expressing your experience with isolation during covid - and what you might be learning from the experience of being isolated.
Move forward into your new day curious about freeing yourself from isolation and opening up to a real connection with your INNATE True Self.