Striving Through Life's Storms in Today’s Times|Greenstories

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Life rarely follows a plan, and there’s nothing much we can do about it. Life-altering events force us into a personal reckoning, challenging what we know about ourselves and triggering a period of instability. Everyone in life faces crises. Crises often sap our energy and lead us to isolate ourselves. What we call a “Life Crisis” and its intensity is a person’s limit to psychological response to major life-changing events. A crisis is a perception or experience of an event or situation as an intolerable difficulty that exceeds the person’s current resources and resolving mechanisms. A crisis presents an obstacle, trauma, or threat. However, it tests our potential and offers an opportunity to elevate us to meet the challenges given by life. Generally, we become victims in these critical situations by making decisions under pressure.

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Quick and hasty decisions probably won’t take us out of the situation. Rather, they will slow down the natural recovery process. What we can do is regulate our reactions and let things go because acceptance of what we can’t change will help calm our minds. The fact is that the more time our body and mind spend in a state of stress, the more it perpetuates fear and anxiety. The fear of failure will come along with individual decisions. We must avoid operating from a place of fear. It leads to losing faith and normal behavior with everyone, which majorly compounds the situation. We can keep a sense of normalcy by telling our brain that although we may be passing through tough times, most things in life are functioning as usual. Everybody wants to get out of a crisis as quickly as they got into it. In these situations, we need to be surrounded by people who are trustworthy and stand by us fully throughout the crisis with the conviction that “This too shall pass.”

The first fallout of the crisis is that we immediately switch over and land in the complaining mode. We feel an absolute deficit of motivation. We feel devoid of the life values we have long nurtured. Since the mind gets trapped in complexities, negativity gets triggered, and we always remain unhappy without knowing the reason. We feel no attachment to daily activities. Our minds get filled with self-doubts and start finding fault in everything from situations to people, and we lose trust in almost the whole surrounding. People also start noticing a negative swing in our mood. In that situation, we don’t know what we want and also start feeling lonely. We start telling ourselves, “Life will resume only when things get better.” But we never know when this situation will come to an end.

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Today, we have made ourselves dependent on so many external factors that are monitoring and governing our lives. We have become more focused only on our own requirements and associated thoughts instead of being sensitive to the feelings of others. Because of a myopic perspective, we have squeezed our outlook. Consequently, we are dominated by anxiety, annoyance, and worry, which demonstrates that peace and harmony have evaporated and stopped living within us. We need to connect and understand the importance of our inner world. Impulses that still drive our actions will reveal a great deal about our inner world. It lacks human wisdom, or we can say “Humanity has lost its humanity.” When we go back to the earlier phase of evolution, we will find that the more impulse-driven we are, the animal kingdom is almost completely impulse-driven. We are unaware that “We can never survive the external storm unless we learn to manage the internal storm”.

We are so busy looking for brief enjoyment in the outside world as it attracts us ceaselessly through the illusion of the mind. We also get mesmerized by the common consciousness for unfathomable greed, created and developed by a nexus of a few intelligent people. We have been completely lost in the cobweb of fear and insecurity sequentially emanating in the process. We miss the inner symphony of life that is playing like a river all the time. Every minute, we rob ourselves of the everlasting inner joy residing inside us. We have given up the finer things of life and invited consistent confusions, constant conflicts, and confirmed chaos.

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The choice should be to “To live in the Moment”. It does not mean that living in the moment is simply forgetting the past and the future. Living in the moment means that we can integrate the experience of the past with the meticulous planning of the future. But we must not allow our consciousness to move away to a place of illusion of fear of future consequences in case of any failure. Because future is always unpredictable. Leaving the present moment and visiting only in past and future is creating illusion and is the cause of all the stress we are living with. If we can apply living in the moment successfully, this single deep-rooted trait will be much better than the long and hardly acquired unlimited external knowledge. We can achieve it only, just by being quietly with us. For survival and sustainability, it’s not the skill rather the “SPIRIT TO LIVE”, which only helps us fighting in the moment of crisis.