The emotional component that this physical illness has brought us is undeniable. Not only because it has obviously impacted most financially, but the uncertainty and lack of control regarding our future is something that our brain is not used to. Therefore, our brain assumes the survival mode, which keeps us anxious and restless.

If we stick to cell phones and the media, what we are going to absorb is a quantity of confusing information, altered and pre-built according to the interests of the person who is giving it. Now everyone is predicting the future based on what deep down they want to believe to calm their own distress processes, but the truth is that nobody knows what is going to happen..

So with all that is going on, what we can do to ensure a minimum of emotional stability? I think we have only one thing left: to live meaningfully day by day. You will ask me, but how?

Through consciously transforming everything we do into a RITUAL. What is a ritual? A ritual is “a solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order”. In other words, it is to give our routines a solemn, meaningful, joyful, creative, sacred character. If we prepare each day as a series of “events” or rituals, we will achieve satisfaction in everything we do, while nature (the only one that DOES know what will happen), does its job of rebuilding our world in the time it deems necessary.

• Divide your day into 3 ritual clusters: morning, afternoon, and night. And, from the moment you open your eyes until you close them, keep that mood that your whole life is one ceremony after another.
• Infuse it with a sacred character especially when you get out of bed in the morning, when you are preparing and consuming your food when you are starting your workday when you are at your breaks during the day when you are taking care of your body when you are organizing and cleaning your house, and when you go to bed.
• Accompany all your ceremonies with music, fragrances, flowers, prayers, or mantras, with significant objects for you.
• Imagine that all the places where you are are sacred and that they require a ceremony and a devotion on your part.
• Transmit this way of living to your family and your children (if you have), so that you help them adapt to this new order of life that they are having to live.

So, in conclusion, release the control, embrace the uncertainty, and celebrate in advance the unseen.

Until the next time my Unbeatables!