Below are some brief ideas that might help you to look after your wellbeing during the times that we find ourselves in, whether you have been negatively effected by COVID-19 and/or by what is happening in the United States.
Recommended for sharing by Susan Cousins and taken from her book Overcoming Everyday Racism.
We can all enrich our lives through:
• kinship – co-operation
• updated experiences
• new thinking
• awareness of one’s own suffering
• the value of telling your story and re-telling your story
• being aware of a bigger wider world
• maintaining a presence in every day life and living (mindfulness)
• being proud of overcoming past and hurtful experiences and dealing with the past
• welcoming the future and embracing the new you
• celebrating your own differences and uniqueness
• facing reality and developing clear and balanced views
• learning about your own culture
• co-operation and interdependence
• extended families
• respect for elders who are treated with dignity and revered for their wisdom and knowledge
• greater hospitality and expressions of kindness and support reflected through the sharing of food
• shared political histories, civil rights movements, activist movements
• a focus on commonalties that pull people together and a fostering of things that pull people together
• a focus on the building and maintaining of communities, rather than individual activities
• attending to traditional life that cares little about wealth, status, jobs or possessions
• a belief and practice of spiritual dimensions
• acceptance that race probably does matter
