June 2020 Blog - Discernment
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Adirondack Sunset by my friend AND PHOTOGRAPHER John Filangeri
A heartfelt thank you to all my clients who have chosen to use my services virtually. Your patience, understanding and support during this extraordinary time of COVID has meant the world to me. It has been a challenging and rewarding experience to offer my services online and several of you have expressed a desire to continue virtually even when in-person appointments are able to resume.
As I write this piece on Memorial Day, New York State has announced that the Mid Hudson Valley Region (where Rose Healing is located) has reached the criteria for Phase 1 “Un-Pause”. However it remains unclear when businesses and services such as mine will be permitted to see clients in person again. To that end we have continue to extend the temporary closure of Rose Healing. All our appointments are available online.
My theme for this month is Discernment. It will be an interesting few weeks ahead energetically and otherwise. Just as each of us had our own experience of the COVID lock-down, so too we shall each have our own experience of the “return to the new normal” or the “UN-Pause”. In March I created a post that said “Flatten the Curve - Choose Peace over Panic”. For June’s blog I created “Time to Flatten the Fear”. We are going to each be challenged to choose what makes us feel safe in the new Post-COVID19 environment.
On a spiritual level the COVID19 experience is a profound invitation from the Universe to use this giant “time-out” and re-evaluate where we were and where we want to go. To simply “return to normal” would imply we may have missed the message of this pandemic.
Perhaps we are being invited to turn our focus inward. To stop being that person who chooses to quickly point out on social media or elsewhere how someone’s opinion, if different than ours, is wrong. We are being shown clearly that attitude is wrong. Learn to appreciate that everyone has a point of view and their own unique perspective. The experience of living in a Post-COVID environment invites us to change the narrative and start with ourselves. Less Judgement, More Compassion, More Dialogue, More Understanding and of course ultimately More Love.
Rather than defeating us, this Pandemic has drawn us together in ways we could have never imagined. While the news media seems to almost exclusively focus on the negative, there is so much positive. Relationships have been strengthened within households, school systems, neighborhoods, States and even the entire Country. How amazed I remain at the selflessness of the hundreds of medical personnel who volunteered to come to New York from the relative safety of their homes in other States! We are far more united as a people than the media wants us to believe. It is June people…..time to step away from the TV, Social Media, Computer Screens and GO OUTSIDE.
I recently witnessed in my community something that reminded me of my childhood from the 1960’s and 1970’s. Kids running towards the ice cream truck with neighbors coming out of the houses to gather (socially distanced 6 feet apart) and share a smile and an ice cream. There is a simple joy and quaintness that we had lost touch with prior to this Pandemic. We have been forced to return to a simpler way of being. Cooking dinner every night, connecting with our neighbors, going for a walk and in general just being closer to home. There are so many memories being made now in this unique time – many of them positive. I wonder if I have written enough about the pandemic and the surreal parts of it in my journal. How can I capture the feeling of these past 10 weeks. I felt the same way after 9/11. Because like all major events, with the passage of time, some of the intensity of the experience will ease from our memory. But just like all major historic events, we will be forever changed.
In the following weeks I anticipate the misinformation, manipulation and judgements will continue to come at us at an alarming pace and from a variety of sources. We have to DISCERN what we will listen to and how, and if, we will allow it to affect our decisions. That is a personal journey. Each of us will go on it alone and yet together. Choose Kindness towards each other as we each figure out the new environment. Think about how this pandemic forced us to recognize what was working in our life and what was not and how there is a new way forward. If we can choose it. Ponder how we can be a better friend, spouse, co-worker, parent and American as we move forward together in peace, love and kindness.
Rose Healing Center is to help (virtual sessions, phone sessions). Did you remember to download our free guided meditations with the crystal harp? Thank you for reading this blog. Much love and gratitude for our journey together. Rosemary