{"id":414,"date":"2020-06-27T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellnessfamilycare.com\/wellnessdev2\/?p=414"},"modified":"2022-08-30T17:07:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T17:07:58","slug":"the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellnessfamilycare.com\/wellnessdev2\/the-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was in a class recently where the pandemic was discussed, with the concept of finding a blessing in the crisis.&nbsp; This may seem hard to do, as we don\u2019t tend to enjoy going through a crisis, so finding a&nbsp;<em>blessing<\/em>&nbsp;in it seems to be a tall order!&nbsp; The analogy was presented that a crisis can be like a detour that takes us off the path we are on and puts us on a different, unplanned path.&nbsp; This can be inconvenient, frustrating, and time consuming.&nbsp; It can evoke feelings of fear, helplessness, anger and despair.&nbsp; But then the image was added to the analogy that \u201cdetours often happen because something is under construction\u201d.&nbsp; Something new will be built and this may be&nbsp;<em>better<\/em>&nbsp;than what was there before.&nbsp;&nbsp; This can alter our perspective, shift our paradigm, or change our experience of the situation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw a meme of Samuel L. Jackson pointing a gun and looking very tough in a scene from Pulp Fiction.&nbsp; It said \u201cSay The New Normal ONE MORE TIME\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp; It made me laugh. I am hearing \u201c<em>The New Normal<\/em>\u201d so frequently, we are talking about this a lot.&nbsp; To quote another meme, I never thought that \u201cI wouldn\u2019t touch him with a 10 foot pole\u201d would become a national policy, but here we are.&nbsp; &nbsp;We are all doing things in a different way and we can rail against it or we can embrace it.&nbsp; There are a lot of things we can\u2019t control, but&nbsp;<strong>our reaction is one thing that we can control<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For instance, the face mask.&nbsp; Lately there have been many varied discussions and studies about the effectiveness of a face mask protecting you from getting the virus and from spreading the virus.&nbsp; I know people that feel very strongly that their rights are violated if they are required to wear a mask, and that breathing the air they exhale is highly detrimental to their health.&nbsp; I am not going to debate the effectiveness or health risks.&nbsp; The bottom line is that for many people, this provides security and safety.&nbsp; This is the policy that was given to me \u201cfrom above\u201d.&nbsp; I am willing to surrender my \u201cright\u201d to a mask-less face in order to protect others.&nbsp; Deciding to rail against the rules and experience anger and rage at my lost rights is going to be a far greater threat to my mental and physical health than any increased carbon dioxide intake that I experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;I<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;get to choose how I react, and this greatly changes the impact that the new normal will have on my health and well-being.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will continue to experience changes as we face this \u201cnew normal\u201d.&nbsp; We get to choose how these changes affect us.&nbsp; They&nbsp;will&nbsp;impact our actions and procedures, but they do not need to influence our mood, our outlook, or our hope for the future.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a class recently where the pandemic was discussed, with the concept of finding a blessing in the crisis.&nbsp; This may seem hard to do, as we don\u2019t tend to enjoy going through a crisis, so finding a&nbsp;blessing&nbsp;in it seems to be a tall order!&nbsp; The analogy was presented that a crisis can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-template-v-1","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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