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Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 03/04/20 18:00

If you knew it was going to be alright, it would be ok wouldn’t it?

That is a bold statement which needs at least some degree of explanation.

First of all what does ‘alright’ mean, and this is at the fundamental basis of why everyone is struggling on a day to day basis.

Through this process, I’ve gone back again to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and is worth (for me at least) thinking about this right now.

Many people have been catapulted far down that hierarchy from positions very close to the top, where they were fighting as hard as possible for self-esteem (usually on social media) and dipping between esteem, love and belonging, to now feel themselves catapulting towards the very bottom of the pyramid.

The bottom level on the classic pyramid is physiological needs, such as: air, water, food etc.

There are many people wondering how they're going to feed their families if they don’t have a job or wondering whether they’ll have somewhere to live, to keep them warm.

The next level of the pyramid is safety and almost everybody is existing at least some part of their life in this area.

Apart from people who have a lot of money in the bank and a big house, there's not so many that are in self-actualisation right at the present time but any who are should be using that position to help other people as much as possible.

Across the board, across the electronic media and all other aspects of media, are many suggestions of how to look after yourself or strategies to ‘see it out’.

The difficulty is that this is (as Timothy Morton would suggest) a hyper-object. 

A hyper-object is like climate change, the problem is so big and so complex and so vast that you cannot begin to understand it.

No amount of time in front of the BBC website will help you get to the bottom of this or make sense of it.

And so, we pass on advice from here to there, from one to the next and ask how to return to ‘normal’.

On the verge of the weekend (not really sure what that means anymore) here are my suggestions for coping and advice:

1)Sleep as well as you can, and if you are having difficulty with that then cut down on alcohol, screens before bed and make sure you get outside to do some sort of exercise.

2)Eat as well as you can. The urge to eat cr@p in front of Netflix every night (at least for me) is almost overwhelming.

3)Continue to do your personal finances, but once you’ve done them and reached an answer, stop and don’t come back to them for a while.You will not fix them by continuing to look at them, you will only fix them with new information or new circumstances.

Once you have that in place and you feel that you’re ok,then you can start to concentrate on helping other people navigate their own situations and difficulties and then that’s when it starts to feel better.

 

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