I’ve been reflecting on the good that we may find as we stay inside, shelter-in-place and experience more stillness. Benefits of lockdown while society focuses on so much negativity.

And so..

…I’d like to offer you some of the benefits of lockdown while society focuses on so much negativity…

#1. All real healing, transformation and evolution happens—not out in the world—but deep in the wilderness—of silence, solitude and stillness.

#2. Being forced to stay in one place for a long time also provides the rare opportunity to be incredibly creative. Benefits of lockdown while society focuses on so much negativity.

#3. Times of discomfort are periods of elite growth. We don’t expand so much when everything’s fabulous.

#4. Because of the virus, many families have become much closer. People who needed to forgive have forgiven. Broken fences have been mended. Meals together are a thing again. [My own cooking skills have sharpened].

#5. We take less for granted now. Fresh vegetables. Walking in a park. Going to a restaurant. Flying on an airplane. These things seem special again.

#6. The pandemic has forced us all to slow down. This gives us the great chance to get to know ourselves better. Our gifts and talents. Our fears and wounds. And as we use this period to build higher selves, we remake tragedy into triumph. Benefits of lockdown while society focuses on so much negativity.

#7. Many have realized that all of the things that were purchased to look good on the street have zero worth—when no one’s on the street.

#8. People are reading books again. Classics and modern treasures. Poetry and biographies. And so we become enriched. Versus busy being busy. And being cyber zombies.

#9. Suffering has opened many a human heart in this new world. Neighbors are helping each other. Strangers are smiling at one another. The hardness that many of us used to protect our good hearts is eroding. Slowly. But certainly.

#10. We are seeing Mother Nature breathing again. Without the planes flying and the factories operating and the ships sailing, the skies and lands and oceans are returning to more of their native glory. This is a sacred gain.

#11. Many are using lockdown as a lab: to learn new skills and build new acumen so that when everything opens up again, they are massively more valuable to the marketplace. And therefore they attract greater rewards for themselves, while they scale their impact.

#12. Most of us are becoming more resourceful. Wasting less. Caring more. Making do with what we have. And feeling ever so grateful.

#13. It’s a time of spiritual opening. When things fall apart, human beings are granted the opportunity to become born a new. Part of us dies so a more creative, brave, generous and useful us can show up. We let go of what we were to become all that we must be. And this is a blessing. Not a curse. Benefits of lockdown while society focuses on so much negativity.

I very much hope these lessons remind you of the good in the bad. And help you assert your greatness while so many around us stand flat-footed in the face of terrific fear. Benefits of lockdown while society focuses on so much negativity.

You’ve learned some of the benefits of lockdown while society focuses on so much negativity. Benefits of lockdown while society focuses on so much negativity.