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A collection of life stories: On ho boosts wellness in the communi By: Rupa Parthasarathy Founder | Art Therapist The person behind the practice MINDKSHETRA
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t has been over three months since over 5 million of us bunkered down into our homes in what will now be the most extended lockdown for NSW.
A sudden onerous restriction to our movement outside the house started a massive ripple of lifestyle shifts within our home. While the tides influenced lives differently depending on individual life scenarios, one thing we can all relate to is the feeling of “groundhog day”. The lull feeling of monotony, of days blurring into weeks and weeks into months: “Blursdays” was what a supervisor of mine called it.
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Like many who still have the privilege of working from home, the first 30 days into the lockdown were a blur for me. Although, my life has changed and restricted within the confines of four walls. Nevertheless, I cruised confidently through most days, thinking I’d use the learnings from the last lockdown. However, slowly but steadily, as I spent Blursday’s after Blursday’s staring into the abyss of screens, spending hours and hours zooming through meetings, a zombielike numbness started seeping in. While online, I was spending hours on end connecting with people. Unfortunately, I got lost in the process of adjusting and migrating a creative practice into the digital realm. I wandered away from getting hands-on with art materials in the physical world. Added to this sense of losing path was the melancholy
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