Coronavirus sheltering in place. Getting better at being you. Turning lemons into lemonade.

Earth Body Mind Spirit with Mike D Stokes

Hello everyone, Mike Stokes Wilde alive education here. Today I'd like to talk about sheltering in place, and how to find the positive, good parts of the crisis that we find ourselves in. In my last episode I spoke of, you know how to stay, how to thrive how to how to stay in a good mindset. And those lessons are still valid. Now. It's important to do your best to step out of the sheeple mentality the the mainstream, emotional narrative, man Extreme narratives are always emotional. They're very rarely rational. You know, we do need to worry about our elderly and our vulnerable population. But the statistics show that coronavirus is not worse than any of the other threats that we face in our day to day lives. They are for some of us, but not for others. So that's that's still important thing you know, and again, you still want to be a good person, and do your best for your, your fellow human, but also not get caught up in the emotional narrative that this is somehow only bad. So I'd like to talk about a couple of the upsides. You know, typically, our society is so outwardly focused, and so focused on material gain that we can't see the obvious good things in front of us. So a simple example that many of You're probably heard about is the reduced deaths due to air pollution because of the slowed economic activity. And then the obvious, slowed impact, slowing impact of the climate crisis, the climate, human induced climate destabilization crisis, the slow burn crisis that is much more of a greater existential threat to our lives. In the long term, then the novel coronavirus is to us. It's almost like we have to go a little bit against our animal nature, which is to react to the crisis in front of us. You know, that's how we evolved. We evolved to survive in the face of immediate threats, tigers and lions and gorillas in mammoths and hippos and all kinds of Dangerous beasts that were around us during our early years as humans. And it was a very successful strategy. But as we became more dominant over all the species on Earth, then those strategies are helpful. And they're actually super important. Like it's important to honor your emotional wisdom. It's just sometimes misplaced, especially when we have some early traumas in our life that we replay over and over again. I'm trying to think of a good example for that. I could just say that for myself, my fear of being ostracized by the group, many of us have that same fear. You know, the old saying goes that the second greatest fear He's deaf. And the number one fear is public speaking. And that's because public speaking is a potential social death. So our emotional bodies tell us that social death is worse than physical death. Because in many cases, when we were growing up in social bands, if we were kicked out of the social group, be that our pre human ancestors or be that our small bands of humans that came before us. If you were kicked out of the group, then you are pretty much dead, your chances of survival were, you know, very, very low. So the interesting thing that's happening now is we're all you know, the social distancing is making the group the bigger social group a little less prevalent. A, of a motivating factor in our lives so. So it's actually a wonderful opportunity to take some extra time to go inside. And to really delve into the depths of your own psyche. I study a bit of young in psychology and dream analysis. And over the years, what I've noticed is, you know, young would say that, you know, take all the symbols that you learn, and then when you're looking at a patient, just throw out all of the symbols that you learn and then deal with the patient in front of you. And when you're trying to sort of make sense of your own dreams. It's it's kind of the same thing. Really, what matters is is the emotional importance that you put on the sym