Imagine you are a pack of children living in a spooky farmhouse, can you blame babysitters for ditching you? No! You can’t even blame your dad, a single parent, who is working overtime shifts to earn more money so that you could live a better life. Every time he returns home after a factory shift in the city, he finds that the latest nanny had fled. Making you and your sister spend days and nights on your own, isolated from the world. Now this situation might sound familiar to you, isn’t it? It is during the times of this Covid-19 pandemic that people are staying with themselves at home, trying to avoid maximum possible human contact.
It is not like those halcyon days of childhood; it is a pandemic increasing the death of the people. But now, when we are alone and isolated at home, we must develop the ability to find those moments of awe that we might have left behind with childhood. According to Sidney Stevens, the more you’re bowled over things, the healthier you’ll be mentally, spiritually, and physically.
How to find awe wherever you are?
Researchers at Berkeley set out to prove a similar hypothesis only for people confined to their homes, or we can say the quarantine crowd. So can you find growth and moments of awe while stuck at home? The answer is YES!
They note that when your mind calms down, from whatever you are doing, like driving, showering, eating, gardening, reading emails, hiking, or playing with your kids, you can choose to bring it back to full attention to the present moment. When you do this, you’re in ways engaging in with what they call ‘Microdosing Mindfulness,’ meaning to ease anxiety and stress by essentially getting high on the present.
Researchers recommend treating your house like a museum instead of just pondering on every object. Cultivating moments of awe in our every day, even in isolation, can be a powerful tonic for mind, body, and soul.
You develop sensitivity to seemingly normal patterns. It is possible only when you could see the sunlight pouring through the front window and get carved into slender blades by the curtains and making it appear like a highway of light on the carpet below.
On other occasions, you might also notice the aerodynamics of a classic pen cap, which makes it well-suited for elastic propelled rocketry—especially when you launch it at your sister, and she gets mad at you for this.
But even after good times, there are dark times too when you would feel those ghostly fingers that spring at night and pluck your bed or stare you from the far end of the room or hiding behind the attic door. You would even feel the tree in front of the house to be growing human brains. Being surrounded by these surreal and strange experiences, you are at the house always waiting for your dad to come home.
Even when you have these awe imaginations and wonder at your home, this situation makes even a small room full of creativity to soar, and that’s probably all you need.
