Jan 2021 The prolonged confinement
What was meant to be a set of temporary measures back in March 2020 has dragged in time. Nearly a year has gone by and hospitals are struggling to respond to all the demands.
If you live alone, create a small emotional support group.
Communicate with compassionate directness. Revisit the episode published April 4th for a deeper explanation of the 5-steps involved in compassionate directness.
1. Checking in
2. Concrete obs
3. Feeling/consequence
4. Proposal
5. Agreement/Negotiation
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Et3b6f7ltTk75WfWPIuVp?si=WNBBcMncQvelaAiVsg1Nmw
Movement - not everyone lives in a mansion, so all these require no space or equipment (inspired by @Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s book “Feel better in 5” https://drchatterjee.com/feel-better-in-5/)
Sunday squats
Monday mountain climbers
Tuesday you choose
Wednesday walks
Thursday 30 second wall sit
Friday jump squats
Saturday sit ups
4. Feed yourself - find out what works for you.
5. Pleasure
6. Read
7. Fantasy
8. Daily gratitude
Numbers about access to electricity from: https://ourworldindata.org/number-of-people-in-the-world-without-electricity-access-falls-below-one-billion
