Corona virus fear - meeting it with awareness and even Joy

I have been traveling recently, but even without that the corona virus fear is everywhere in our collective mind and media. What does it mean? How do we approach it as Lightworkers and Joy Keepers?

An overview of the corona virus fear video

How I encountered corona virus fear in myself and in conversations with others
Understanding what is happening and how fear is more contagious than the virus
The gifts that this situation brings
- How it shows us our connectivity – in positive ways too
- The opportunity to encounter fears that have been there all the time and ask for our awareness anyway
- The opportunity to examine our beliefs around illness, safety, life and death
How to meet the current situation as Joy Keepers and Lighworkers

A transcript of the corona virus fear video

I’m challenging myself here, and you perhaps with what I’m going to be talking about, namely the corona virus fear.

While traveling I had some experiences that we’re all having now and that haven’t been addressed much in the spiritual community. But I think we should address these, as this is an important part of our lives right now.

My first personal meeting corona virus fear was when I traveled to California in February and especially in the Los Angeles airport where everyone on duty had masks on, as did most of the Chinese passengers at the airport. This was just before the virus started spreading to other countries.

I had this experience of being in the very long line (when you enter the United States as a foreigner there is quite a lot of control there, to say the least). So here I was in this crowded line, and just behind me there was a group of young Chinese women and they all had this mask on. And I noticed myself keeping an extra distance to them… And then I realized, this must be a subconscious fear of getting the virus. And then I thought: “How is it to be Chinese these days?”…

Past all the controls I then spent a week on an amazing spiritual vacation which is a different story… but then as I came home I talked with a friend and she told me that her husband who is elderly and ill was terribly scared right now and he wanted to know what he could do to avoid the virus. Maybe he should hide in their cottage in Sweden, far away from everything?

And then I was talking with another friend and we wanted to meet in Copenhagen for chat and coffee and she said “Shall we meet in a cafe or shall we meet somewhere corona free?”.

So the experience that there is this virus is really becoming part of our daily life, not to mention the news. It’s there in all kinds of ways. And I feel that it’s really important for us to relate to it, to talk about it openly and to see what this brings.

I honestly believe that whatever happens in life there might be all kinds of explanations of why it happens but the fact remains there is a gift in everything and there is also a gift in this situation.

The gift here is the gift of awareness.

While we can see this virus spread more and more on all continents, we can begin to notice what is shows us. And one thing that it does show us is actually that we are so very connected! It took so little time and now there are cases everywhere. I know that this feels like a scary thing in itself, but the other side of it is that we are connected for everything! We are also connected for collaboration; we are also connected for joy. So let’s keep this in mind.

The other thing that this virus shows us and is bringing forward in our awareness is all kinds of fears. Right now fear is spreading much, much faster than the virus!

I don’t have any opinion about the virus itself. I don’t have any opinion on why it’s happening in physical and non- physical terms, and what to do about it. I believe it’s a question of personal beliefs.

But I do have an opinion or a contribution if you will, I do have something I want to share with you with regards to how we meet what the virus brings. Which for most of us is not the illness but the fear.

And that is a gift because the fear was there before the virus, the fear is something that we live with! So the opportunity we have is to say: “Hey there is my fear, welcome my friend, let me meet you and SEE you, let me address you, let me embrace you and let me help you in being transformed, perhaps into something more in alignment with who I am.”

And of course, the biggest fear that we meet is the fear of death. So this is an opportunity: rather than saying to ourselves “How can I avoid it”, we can meet and SEE the fear of death.

For some it requires a counselor, for some it requires a spiritual coach, for some it requires deep meditation, for some it requires deep journaling. But regardless of our individual ways of doing it, let us meet it!

Death is inevitable as we know and it is part of life, and it is not a bad part of life, it is part of the cycle. So let’s meet it with awareness, for ourselves and for others. That’s the first gift.

And the next gift is to find out: what do I really believe?

Because there is also the fear of something coming from outside and changing my life, there is the idea that I am or I can be a helpless victim of some sort of illness.

So there is the invitation to explore: What do I really believe? What is really true for me? Is illness something that happens accidentally? Am I a victim of circumstances? And if it happens, am I then a victim? Or is there a challenge and a gift? Does life happen for me or to me?

There’s a lot of questions that can be raised through the experience of a virus that spreads.

And because we are a s spiritual community and because we are here to bring more awareness, to bring more awakening, to wake up to our oneness and to our true reality, this is an opportunity to work with these challenges, and not just do the physical thing like getting a mask, or avoiding the cafe, or hide somewhere where you hope this will not touch you, or avoid people so they won’t touch you, literally.

I hope this makes sense. I know it is challenging, because that kind of fear, the physical fear , the fear of what can happen with my body, is so deep, it is also a question of what is my safety in the world? Is it my body? Is it my health? Is it something else?

And these are good questions, these are good invitations. So let’s be courageous, let’s take them in, let’s look at them.

The Joy perspective

And then, because I’m of course here to speak about joy, there is also the joy perspective.

So first of all being a Joy Keeper is not about hiding any trouble, it’s not about avoiding any challenges and pretending they’re not here. It’s about aligning more and more with who we really are, with our joyful self, and from there embracing our fear, and from there embracing each others’ fears, and from there holding on to the joy no matter what happens.

Is it easy? Not always. It’s not for any of us, it’s not always easy, but it is an invitation, again, to, whatever happens in the world, rather than closing our eyes, rather than avoiding the fear, to meet it with awareness and then reconnect with our joy and then bring joy into the situations.

Does it mean that there is joy because someone is ill? Of course not. Does it mean there is joy because someone is dying? – not in that way.

What joy really is, is the knowing that there is something infinitely bigger, something beyond life and death, that there is a meaning, that life works for us, that we are on our way, that we are meeting challenges and joy is still there, our ability to feel it is still there and will be always.

I hope we will have the courage to relate to this. Because as Marianne Williamson said, and she said it about politics but it is true in this case too: Whatever we avoid we have no influence on, but whatever we choose to relate to, and choose to meet as this spiritual tribe, whatever we choose to connect to and relate to, will be changing to the better, to use that word, it will be expanded into a higher level of consciousness, it will be enlightened more and more, and we will be enlightened more and more through it.