How did the Corona crisis affect my life this far? While all the others are losing it, I feel I made major gains. Which goes well together with the fact that I stopped wearing pants 10 days ago. I feel I started growing again. I was talking on the weekend to my friend Marika from Finland and we were joking if we can break our Toulouse record, where we both gained 10kg !!! in only 5 months. Currently, I am my own fucking full time catering service, cause apparently I need to be fed like a parking meter every 2 hours. It took me some packages of chips and chocolate and some bottles of wine to cope with the first wave of panic. This was only after I ran to the shops and bought more canned food than the Russians are keeping in their nuclear bunkers. Hummus for a very long time!
Despite the food, people keep on telling me how bored they are. I have no idea what they are talking about. I haven’t been this busy in years! At this point I want to thank my parents for isolating me during my childhood, so I became a somewhat very loud introvert and learned already at a very early age how to keep myself occupied. So now all the movement in my life is just internalized, and I am running from work to my Kaballah lesson, to my Hebrew lesson, to my Reiki healing session, to my yoga class, to my watch parties, to my face time calls. I feel I haven’t been doing this great for years. I feel that everything that was holding me back from doing the things that are really me is gone. It feels like after an internal reset I am loading all the new relevant data on my hard disk.
So all the people who are sitting there and just don’t know what to do with themselves. Imagine it’s 2020 and a virus did some severe damage to your system. You will for sure lose some of your data, but you will also have the chance to renew your downloads and get some amazing new programs to work on (#changeyourhabits). So if there is anything you ever wanted to learn, any kind of skills you wanted to acquire. The time is now. Check for some inspirations: https://www.udemy.com/
In the beginning of the month I actually already felt the threat coming, because men in Berlin started hitting on me at daylight in public transport. And I was like: Amazing, finally the Israel vibe comes to Europe. Yalla! Live like there is no tomorrow. But quickly I realized they were just afraid, looking for some strong female emotional support. Many of them were telling me that they are afraid to put on weight now. Really? The world is about to end and all I am talking about is their growing bellies!? Dear men, man up, stop eating and start training your bodies for the after-quarantine! And at this point I realized that although it might be tempting to find a partner in quarantine, it seems more promising to wait and let nature take care of it. #survivalofthefittest
But of course I understand that each and every one of us reacts differently to a potential threat, and this is what the last two weeks were about. Whenever things start to fall apart our Western civilization wants to take back control. The buddhists relax cause for them chaos is just a necessary step to create a new order. When the Amazonas was burning, the threat seemed far away. Then Australia got destroyed by fires and yet again people where concerned, but not really affected. I don’t know how you felt about these incidences, but for me it was clear that our planet is a closed system and every action will bring a reaction. So now we are struggling with a lung disease which is taking our breath.
And suddenly we are all in this together. Each and every one of us is a potential target, despite our sex, age, and cultural background. We are all experiencing fear, uncertainty, and vulnerability at this moment. It seems ironic that we are so much concerned about the elder population, and they don’t seem to be bothered at all. Everybody tries to create a situation of safety and comfort for himself and it does not surprise me at all that I live in a society that thinks it can buy its way out of the crisis. These people were born into a consumer society and this is their coping mechanism. Whenever things go wrong we get something new to make us feel good. Looking at the younger generation, which is the incorporation of their brands, it’s even worse cause they don’t understand that the world is at fucking war, and nobody needs them anymore.
I think we have all seen now what people are having for breakfast, how their skin care routine looks like, what kind of underwear they wear, and how many yoga sessions they are doing per day (yawn). Where is the content? Where is the value? Suddenly, they all start doing charity because they see their existence (“influencer is my job”) threatened and how else could they justify their keep on going and total ignorance of the current situation. Here I have to say that I am very proud of my little sister who had a lot of offers to work on the internet, but in the end decided not to. The influencers will get eaten by the new virus and that’s only one of the potential great changes it will bring. Check on https://www.facebook.com/OliverPocher/ for more solid updates on this.
But coming back to our all situation. To be locked down, not able to move freely. To be kept in our houses like animals. Wait! We think we are losing “our lives” because our view is so egoistic and restricted, but think about people who are part of our consumption cycle and work somewhere 12 hours a day so we can get our cheap made in China shit. Think of all the animals caged and tortured, so we can eat their meat. I think it’s a great time to sit down and reflect how privileged we are and how many options we have in life.
Somebody cancelled all the distractions, all the external entertainment because he wanted us to sit down and feel. Not punish us, not bring the karma, no “what goes around comes around”. This always has a negative aspect to it. But this total isolation is connecting us on a much deeper level. People who have already experienced their awakening know that we are all connected in a soul consciousness and nourished by the delightful life force energy. Every crisis brings danger, but at the same time immense opportunities.
When you understand this concept of duality (as you have with Ying and Yang) you will also understand that this split is not meant to separate us, but quite the contrary. The isolation leads to a stronger conscious connection. People see now the life they have created for themselves and there is no way to escape it. People who are not where they would like to be feel the urge to get there. And people who were until now hesitating will sharpen their view on what is really important to them. At the same time we see and feel the effects of our actions in the systems and societies we live in (such as complete neglect of our leaders). This experience is to be shared because it is an overall experience that affects all of us, and will be wasted if we stay in our isolated suffering.
It seems the time has come when “the planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.” (Dalai Lama) Because now we can see more than ever, that we are only as strong as the world we live in. And I see that the people of value in my life are not people chasing status and money, but bringing their unique light into my life. Today, I will mention three of them: Dragan Simicevic who is not only my school friend I know for 100 years, but a highly professional psychologist, coach, and consultant with many years of experience (IG @exploreself), Adriaan Machete (www.adriaanseven.org) who is an amazing tattoo artist, shaman, and yoga teacher (we are working since last summer together in energy healing sessions); and Itzik Lanciano who is providing the right soundtrack for your soul these days: https://youtu.be/jncHqtw1yQ8 (IG @earth_connect). This is the kind of support and solidarity we need now.
I am very privileged to work in a Jewish company. Neither because I know that the cash will flow, nor because I can be sure that we will survive 😉 But because this is my first job where my currency is empathy and my budget the customer satisfaction. So when the crisis was announced our direction immediately took the right measures for their employees. As a second step the gift cards of our online bonus program got reduced so the people will get more for their “bucks”. So for those of you who are really bored now, you have plenty of possibilities to earn money online and if you don’t want to keep it, just donate it to people who are in need. If you wanna know what I am doing register on Swagbucks: https://www.swagbucks.com/refer/swaguser20104477
If you want to help people in Germany, check on you neighbours if somebody around you needs help: https://www.quarantaenehelden.org/#/
And above all, invest in yourself and make your soul a beautiful, happy, and safe place.
Lots of love to you.
Your beatitude.
my beatitude 
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