new yoga routine!

With this extra time, I'm following a 30 day yoga routine. Today will be day 10. I do feel much more relaxed.

when everything changes

My usual weekend practice is to read a book related to depth psychology and see what thoughts rise. With libraries closed, I can’t get new books (the psych I’m interested in are all hard-copies) so I thought to listen to a podcast.

This Jungian Life Episode 106: When Everything Changes: Is There Opportunity in Crisis?

One of the first images Lisa Marchiano brought up was the Tower Tarot card. Joseph Lee mentioned two reactions to traumatic times (i.e. war or pandemic): first, taking this as a time of complete transformation so focusing on personal growth / transformation and second, taking this as a time of suspension which will end and have a return to normal. Thinking of The Hunger Games I had a third response which Joseph Campbell would refer to as denying the call which is similar to the time of suspension of way things are but the call keeps becoming deeper as the situation continues to spiral out of control and so eventually you do accept the change.

 

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