by Joel
I am a small business owner, a chiropractor, and I find myself driving to my office after a statewide mandatory quarantine has been issued by California’s Governor Newsom, contemplating the reality that COVID-19 is having on my business. About 90% of my patients have stopped or paused care, and I will be losing money for the foreseeable future with a likely outcome of me going out of business altogether.
I see that life (and especially awakening) has two forces: forces of stability and forces of instability. We need both in order to transform, heal, and evolve. While driving to my office, I see I have two options in the face of the massive instability the virus has brought to my business—I can let go or I can struggle. Right then, a deep letting go happens. Immediately, I feel a deep sense of freedom and liberation.
I find it quite amusing that I am experiencing a deep state of freedom at the same time I’m in a mandatory quarantine by my state government. My business is challenged right now, but I don’t need to suffer. Suffering is optional, as long as we have the eyes to see it.
Deep freedom in the form of a quarantine and a pandemic—who would have thought?
