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Quarantine: An Opportunity for Spiritual Renewal
I’ve noticed this time of self-isolation has many parallels to the experience of a dark night of the soul, which comes before spiritual renewal. A time where there are no distractions from yourself or your thoughts and that space gives you the freedom to explore what is and isn’t working for you.
It’s a time of profound healing, that we got but didn’t ask for, and perhaps it’s even more intense than a typical dark night of the soul because we really don’t have anywhere to go to distract ourselves. No doubt, this is a fast track to our empowerment if we choose it.
The medicine in a time like this is to be fully present with ourselves and allow all emotions (our own and the collectives’) to move through us and fully express themselves. If that means releasing pent up anger and frustration by kicking and screaming into a pillow, then so be it. Even better.
Daily journaling, as much as I resist it, is incredibly helpful to process emotions. Creativity is an equally important form of self-expression, whether that’s by baking, cooking, sewing, crafting you name it. There are so many opportunities. As a writer, I find I instantly feel better when expressing my thoughts in a format like this.
This is truly an opportunity to become closer to ourselves than ever before. With all of ourselves…