Look at your dog.
Is he worrying about rampant viruses? Or is he just contentedly being a dog? Is he getting anxious about what just may happen in the future, or is he happy with where he is right now?
We can learn from our pets. For a start we can enjoy their world-view and consequent feelings of normality and continuity.
And we can observe that worrying about things changes nothing!
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Security and safety
We all need a sense of security (as Maslow defined in his Hierarchy of Needs), and the panic and fears being whipped up by some parts of the media and social media are counter-productive!
Continually being in an anxious state lowers your immunity and maintains damaging stress.
Choose one or maybe two news sources that you trust, and check them just once a day. You do not need minute-by-minute reports and all the speculation and catastrophising that goes with them.
When you are talking, ask yourself “Am I making the situation better or worse?”
We all need a sense of belonging, and isolation measures can make us feel alone and vulnerable.
Self-sufficiency
I’m no epidemiologist, but I have seen isolation work. When the UK slaughtered millions of farm animals in the last Foot and Mouth outbreak, Ireland was barely touched. Because it is largely a rural economy, there was a united effort from the whole country - instantly - to comply with the sweeping measures brought in to prevent the spread of the disease. The result was that only a couple of flocks in one area were affected. Ireland escaped Foot and Mouth virtually unscathed.
Once we have our safety and belonging needs sorted - by reframing them as virtues not calamities - we can look to being the best version of ourselves.
We manifest into our lives the things we most desire and the things we most fear. (This is physics, not woo-woo - ask Einstein …) Where is your focus?
These things will pass! Do what is recommended by your authorities, look at the upside of isolation (there’s always an upside to everything!)
.. and enjoy some quality time with your soothing, carefree, dog.
