Nothing new here - my routine remains the same. I spend all my free time at home and indoors or out in the garden. Going out to exercise is fine and spending time in the great outdoors in the middle of nowhere remains unchanged. I guess the only real change has been giving people a slightly wider berth when walking past them in the street.
Asides from working from home 2 days a week, nothing has changed here at all. It's been harder to not read the news because the media attention towards the pandemic went viral harder and faster than the virus itself. I mean, avoiding the news in of itself is a task - when quitting the news I realised in the early days I was exhibiting symptoms similar to quitting an addiction. Then, similar to say alcohol - I realised the news is big business, thus it's absolutely everywhere, and to avoid it you have to take quite a lot of steps. Still - I remind myself the news focuses primarily on negative or anxiety baiting stories - so they're having a field day right now. A few people at work discuss current events, new numbers or cases or deaths. When they ask for my input I remind them I don't read the news, because I can't fix a world full of other people's problems, and I don't feel great reading that sort of negativity on a daily basis. A few messages from the GP about appointments and a couple of work emails is all I really needed to hear about the virus.
The rest is common sense. I did buy another Seth book recently as I felt now was a good time to read it. "The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events." Funnily enough the first chapter is about human health and epidemics and why they come about. The Seth books are something that have to be approached with an open mind, as every pre-conception you have about life and reality is thrown out the window. The basic premise being we create our own reality. So to, do we choose when we live (the book embraces the notion of reincarnation) and we also choose when we die.
Here's some excerpts to wet your whistle
So, I suppose if you were to look at current events - poverty, over-population, excessive consumption, the huge divide between rich and poor, the ego-centric social media craze, the gluttony, the dubious actions of politicians, the corruption, global warming, animal extinctions - all the while all of this negativity is portrayed to us daily with 24 hour news updates? If humans really do create their own reality, and negative emotions can indeed create negative consequences such as epidemics. Well - it's food for thought.
Even if the notion of it seems ludicrous (as it probably will to many), it's interesting at least.
Ed
