WHAT IF ...

I’ve read that the water in the canals of Venice are the cleanest they’ve been in 60 years. That dolphins are coming closer to the shore than ever before along Italian coastal regions 🐬 and China has blue skies from the reduction in pollution from this forced rest (lockdown shmockdown ... I’m calling it rest).

I’ve been having this overwhelming feeling that something much bigger is at play here. For most of my adult life, anytime there is a catastrophe of grand scale that drastically reduces population numbers (to the likes of earth quakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions - some of which I acknowledge are a result of human play) that there’s a point to it.

Mother Nature can not sustain our abuse.

She cannot sustain our population growth.

And she can’t sustain our waste.

I can’t help but think WHAT IF ...

🌱 Not having enough toilet paper, tissues or other disposable products makes us think about how much waste we use on a daily basis, and we start to get serious about how we can minimise our usage for longevity
🌱 Not having enough meat makes us think about how we can nourish ourselves by eating more plants
🌱 Not being able to buy fresh produce at large chain supermarkets encourages people to grow a little veggie patch in the backyard
🌱 Not being able to import / export makes us remember that our home soil has every resource we require to sustain us and we keep our resources here for our own use
🌱 Seeing the improvements in air quality encourages us to commute in a better, cleaner way
🌱 Not being able to go to work 9-5pm (plus travel) allows us to see that there IS another way to generate income and how we invest our time. That work / life freedom is possible and we can be even more productive because if it
🌱 Not being able to step outside of your home and connect with others opens up your heart to want to meet your neighbours (when they’ve lived next door for years and you’ve never introduced yourself) when the lock down lifts
🌱 Not being able to earn money to pay off the astronomical debt we carry as a society makes us smarter with our money and we reduce those credit card bills and personal loans to live within our means
🌱 We see that we’ve been living in a state of excess for so bloody long that we start to minimise and have just enough of what we need
🌱 We showed the same passion and emotion and cared as much about our broken families and relationships as we do about people choosing to stockpile groceries
🌱 Not being able to access everything at the click of a button reminds us how lucky we are and feel grateful for what we do have and how easy it has been to access
🌱 Staying home for two weeks allows us the time to make the phone calls to our besties, bake food, share meals and connect to life in more wholesome ways
🌱 Being forced to stay home and REST allows our nervous system to reset in a way that it’s been screaming for far too long
🌱 We realised the impact of incessant whining at all the stuff that doesn’t matter and starting to be more mindful of our thoughts and energy
🌱 Not being able to fly abroad to learn about other cultures encourages you to adventure through your home land, which displays one of the most diverse and magical landscapes in the world, and the oldest indigenous culture in the history of humanity
🌱 Not being able to distract yourself with mindless, busy indulgences invites you to cultivate a relationship with your breath and find comfort there, finally
🌱 You get bored with the internet and start creating - paint, draw, dance, move, play games, cook, journal and dream
🌱 Not being able to send your kids to school, sport, before and after school care and any other extra curricular activities that allow you the time and freedom to work in this societal conditioning encourages you to take responsibility for their care, entertainment, pleasure, creativity and joy and helps you reconnect with them in a profound and meaningful way
🌱 This rest is an opportunity to help you remember what you’re passionate about and make changes to your life to ensure that you never have to fear being still for a moment ever again, and actually make it part of your daily existence
🌱 This deep rest promotes deep healing and we overcome some of the chronic health diseases our stressful lifestyle has created
🌱 We read more, learn more, understand more, become more educated about things that really matter, rather than investing energy in things that don’t.

We have an incredible opportunity to step into possibility and potential right now. To grow beyond the mindset of lack, fear and anxiety and make sustainable change for us and our planet.

What if ...

Tanya Savva xx