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Staying Grounded When Security is Gone
Many spiritual teachers spend a lot of time talking about the fear of death as a our biggest source of existential anxiety. Even psychologists have spoken about death anxiety for a long time and tie extreme anxiety disorders to a potential fear of death and dying. For the most of us, however, fear of death has not been on our conscious minds as we have been busy living our lives.
Well that was until Coronavirus happened. We are now living in a situation where jobs, bills, finances, education and access to medical care are all being threatened at the same time. We are officially living in a time where external sources or symbols of security will not abate the overwhelming feelings of anxiety any longer. We are facing the news of death every day and now living without any security.
As mother nature put us in a major time out, many of us are being faced with our other biggest fear: The fear of poverty. To me, the fear of poverty, has been a bigger threat to our overall mental health for centuries than the fear of death. The fear of poverty keeps us in jobs that kill our souls. The fear of poverty encourages us to do things we may not normally do to earn money. The fear of poverty has effectively kept our financial institutions, political systems, and our economies operating in the same fashion for thousands of years. Overnight, that system has seemed to…
