Imagine

I woke up to John Lennon singing IMAGINE in my head and was flooded with emotions of love, peace and hope...and I missed him.  Then I was immediately bombarded by the news feed about this coronavirus invasion on our humanity, I was shocked to my very core. I must admit I have sensed that “something” was heading our way, because our mother earth/beloved planet has not been coping for a long time now and something had to give.  I felt each wave of her labour pain as if Mother (Earth) was trying to give birth to a newer Earth; a new plane of existence to fill our deepest yearning of belongingness and oneness. Almost every word that John sang (though written by Yoko Ono) touched my Soul but I hated myself afterwards for using up half a roll of toilet paper for soaking up my tears. I was embarrassed with the footage broadcasted around the world showing how we fought each other over packets of toilet paper inside a supermarket as if we cannot live without it. When John Lennon shared “imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can”, they were not thinking what I am thinking.

As I am not one who suffers from a lack of imagination so I pose this question to myself. What if we have ears to hear and awareness to interpret the language of our beloved Mother Earth, what then would she be saying to us throughout these last decades? Has she given us enough signs such as the disappearances of our forests, animal species, melting of the icebergs, just to name a few to show us that not all is well?  Have we seen enough evidence on how polluted our atmosphere is; how dirty our bodies of water have become and how our beloved animals, fish and birds are being strangled daily with our plastic bags and suffocated by having bottle tops stuck inside their throats. Yup, you can find my name on the “guilty” list as I routinely accepted a plastic bag from a shop (plainly too lazy to bring one with me) and I adhered to the dangerous axiom of “out of sight, out of mind”!.

Who could imagine the consequences of our absent mindedness; our unwillingness to  respect nature and to care for the ground that produces our food supply. We need clean air to breathe and trees are doing our purification work while we are fast asleep. We are cheating ourselves with our lack of interest to learn about the healing herbs and plants that the Creative Force/God gifted to us since time began…. what are we thinking!!!

Perhaps we are not “thinking” adequately at all, at least not for our next generation or those generations that follow. Sometimes I even heard myself rumbling that since I won’t be here by then so why worry about throwing a lolly paper out a moving vehicle’s window on a lonely drive with no one around. I think it is this kind of irresponsibility, selfishness, laziness that have resulted in the whole world having a “Collective Sleep In” leading finally to a “Compulsory Shut In”. Yes, we have heard the alarm clock going off but we reached out and pressed the “off” button and continued our pillow talk. There is a saying that “enough is enough” so perhaps what is happening now is that Mother Earth has finally got hold of a universal loudspeaker broadcasting her message to every inch of her body, begging us to save her so she can nourish our future grandbabies. Our Mother Earth which is a living organism is governed by a Higher Intelligence and she needs to maintain her equilibrium and balance so to provide us with positive life-force to strive. The arrival of the coronavirus is the ultimate alarm clock? None is spared here and perhaps the young who are less prone to its killing force are waiting for us, the dependable adults to “change” (within and without) for them?  Ouch!!!!! Sorry, a case of hitting below the belt.

I am reading this book called “Grow a New Body” by Dr. Alberto Villoldo, forward by Christiane Northrup, MD (my favourite) and Ablerto co-led detox programmes with Mark Hyman, MD (another favourite) and also co-wrote a book with neurologist David Perlmutter, MD (also a favourite) called “Power Up Your Brain”. Under the subtitle of “A Harmonizing Force” in which he shared:  “We mistakenly believe that the only way to avoid illness, conflict, or suffering is by fighting for survival and exerting power over others. But in fact, our greedy, selfish, manipulative actions lead to the very illness, conflict, and suffering we’re trying so hard to avoid. That’s not to say that we are the authors of all the misfortune that befalls us. Sometimes what we’re experiencing are the consequences of an imbalance we personally had no part in creating.The Ebola virus is an example. This deadly virus was once contained within a 10-square-mile forest in Africa, but when the forest was cut down for lumber, the virus lost its natural habitat and quickly spread to animals and humans in the surrounding area.  Many of the people who have died from Ebola had nothing to do with cutting down the forest, but they suffered mightily from it nonetheless”.  

But, on a more positive note, please know that there is always a silver lining to everything and because of my busi-ness for the past few years, now I have the chance to “make acquaintance” with my parasympathetic nervous system with the simple to follow agenda “rest, digest, heal”. Wanting to make full use of this “shut-in” period, I ordered a portable one-person far infrared sauna, a cheapie from Amazon, but it does the work. So think of a covered courtyard with a Moroccan colour theme: moonlight shining from above; gentle dry heat soothing my tired body and flushing out toxins through sweating over my skin; candles filling the air with aromatherapy fragrance and listening to Dr Deepak Chopra’s meditation on how not to be scared by this virus.

I also use this “SEASON OF REST” to introduce myself to intermittent fasting, it has turned out to be quite easy and pain free. I started off with a greater “eating window” and experienced no hardships. I loved eating my own fat for breakfast and lunch, it costed me nothing and the fasting enabled my “damaged” cells to commit suicide in a process called autophagy. I like it a lot so does the bathroom scale and mirror.

My next “shut in” attempt would be to establish a veggie box and to play with  mushroom compost and worm poo growing organic produce in my backyard. Only then would I be able to trade with my local supermarket for a few rolls of toilet paper.  A win win situation alright!  

Furthermore, I want to create a Facebook Community Group asap for anyone who might be living in isolation or have been forced to stay away from work indefinitely. I believe there are people who do not belong to any groupings thus receive no support or any human connectedness during this most challenging time. We are social beings and we are tribal orientated, we strive best with a sense of belonging. I want to “catch” people at the grass root level, where we are feeling so fearful, vulnerable, confused, depressed, anxious and alone. From my own experience with engaging in more than half a dozen of community facebook groups during the last several years, I can vouch how helpful and fun that “joining” have been. I have made some wonderful friendships and not to mention the effect it has on my own personal growth and development. 

I feel that it is often a bit late trying to mop up the “damages” afterwards, it is better to walk with people at their most trying times than to “counsel” them afterwards. I believe that people are basically good and Facebook members do not ask for much but can be lifted instantly by others placing a “like” or contributing some positive comments. I shall let you know once I have it set up. The idea is for me to post a sentence or two DAILY sharing something meaningful or helpful, I would head each daily share with these three beautiful words  “JUST FOR TODAY” because we are all learning to live a day at a time. I accept this will be a “big ask” from myself, but someone has to do it, so why not me? Do join with me in our global village and spread the words to those who might have been left on their own to tread through this confusing maze. It is not necessary for us to suffer so much. We need each other, we are each other. Call me a dreamer if you like, no apology here as John and Yoko also shared “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope one day you’ll join us and the world will be as one.”

I came across this beautiful piece of writing by Kitty O’Meara gracing our social media the other day, it touched and inspired me deeply and I think you would love it too.

And the people stayed at home. And read books, and listened, and rested and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed. And in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully as they had been healed.

“This too shall pass, we all know that, but to have it passed without finding out the insightful message/lesson it brought to us in the first place would be such a shame”  - Yours truly

Love yourself as if your life depends on it because it does” - Anita Moorjani

Thank you everyone once again for joining with me, we will see this through together. I send you love, light, peace and healing. Don’t stress, all would be WELL.