The Covid Lessons

There is nothing scarier than feeling like you can't breathe, right? But most of us live our lives in the wrong job, the wrong relationship, and sometimes it feels like we're trapped. Every day you walk into that wrong office living the wrong life. All you want to do is write threatening haikus to your boss like Edward Norton in Fight Club. But the hard truth is, you are giving away your breath, energy, and life force. Simply, by allowing the situations of your life to stay stuck. The same thoughts, the same environment, the same consciousness.

The feeling of not being able to breathe, being trapped, feels the same as the coffin closing on you while you're still alive as your lowered into your hole in the ground and the dirt slams the outside of your box. With every thud of dirt, you're reminded of what could have been.

We all get stuck in life, but that doesn't mean you have to stay stuck. Being stuck is allowing the trapped thought forms and negative emotions to become who you are. You don't have to be your thoughts; it's a choice.

As I laid in my bed for two weeks, praying, saying affirmations, allowing the healing hands of my guides to fill me with light, I realized I had been stuck too. When I realized this, I knew there was a lesson waiting on the other side of my time with covid. Covid has taught me three major lessons in life. Maybe a better way to say it is that I was shown because sometimes spirit must kick me before I listen.

LESSON ONE: BREATH IS LIFE

As Wim Hof would say, "breathe, mother fucker”. You take for granted the ability to breathe easily and effortlessly. We forget how to breathe deep and focus on our breath sometimes. Some people never really breathe their entire life, right? Yet, the key to a healthy life, mission, and purpose-driven legacy is breath because without breathing, there is no being, doing, or having.

LESSON TWO: SURRENDER TO THE PROCESS

I had a western medicine phobia before covid from a during birth trauma. I was born so quickly, I was so unprepared that the doctor catching me created a trauma. Modern science and western medicine are real. I don't agree with western medicine sometimes, and science doesn't lie. It was my worst nightmare as I lay in the hospital getting tested, poked, and prodded.

The MD would walk in, and my EKG would show my heart rate jumping immediately. But I surrendered to the fear and let it go. I told myself, "This time is when western medicine can help you, trust the doctor has good intentions. Trust the process."

We all want everything now, especially in our high-tech world. We want it now, and we want it to feel good. In our modern society, we have lost the ability to trust the process. I had lost my ability to trust the process. Tell the universe what you want in life, take massive action, and then watch for the signs and symbols. Trust that your intention will be answered. The intention will show up differently than you imagined because it will be better than you could have created. Trust the process; this is my lesson.

My choice the last few months was to simplify my life and restart my mission back at zero, hit a reset button. What an amazing universe.

LESSON THREE: BE GRATEFUL

We act like tomorrow is guaranteed, but it's not. One of the most powerful experiences you can have is to feel gratitude at the deepest levels of your being. Being grateful for the sun, the air you breathe, the food you're eating, the loved ones around you. We Americans have a lot more than most of the world, but our eyes won’t see it.

Being grateful for our happiness, our health, and our abundance is easy. Being thankful for your misfortunes is how the human soul evolves. The only way to find gratitude is to find the lesson inside the suffering. What's the lesson? How can you integrate that lesson and take action toward a new perspective?

I am so grateful for my covid experience. I reconnected with my highest self in a meaningful way and proved my belief in the mind-body connection. I know I can control my mind, which controls my body because the separation is an illusion.

I began to turn a corner after I started doing internal work inside myself. Once I asked for the healing energy of the universe to change my body's chemistry, everything changed. I imagined dials that corresponded to my immune system, heart rate, oxygen exchange, and digestive enzymes. As I saw the dials, I changed the settings to maximize my healing. I could feel my body change and react to the control room adjustments.

I am grateful for my breath; I am thankful for my writing obsession; I am grateful for my amazing wife, my acupuncturist, and my family. Finally, I am grateful for the perspective changes that covid has given me.

It was just what I needed to take a hard reset in life. Covid takes all of your perceptions (sight, feeling, hearing, smell, taste) and twists them until your reality is unrecognizable.

There is the Thomas Wurm before covid and the person emerging after covid. I am so fucking excited and hopeful for this new way of being, aren't you?