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Hit the ground
RUNNING? Jane Sheehan argues against rushing back to your normal working patterns…
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’VE been asked to write an article on hitting the ground running. My instinctive reaction was Noooooooooooooo! Everyone is approaching this lockdown differently and anticipating its lifting differently. My reaction is based on the fact that I am finding this period of lockdown fascinating. It is, as they say, unprecedented. I am fascinated by my own reactions. On a daily basis my emotions are shifting faster than Jim Carey’s facial expressions. Never before have I had a government sanctioned period where I am asked to sit and contemplate my navel. This abrupt halt of the stopping of the work treadmill and the social whirl has given me the time to come home to me. Never before has there been a better time to become self-actualised. Marianne Williamson said in her book “Return to Love”… “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do…” She continues: “And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others”.
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