How To Be Our Best Self In Times Of Crisis

 

'How to be our best self during times of crisis' is a new book by Tom Gunning and Stuart Breen. Available in all Veritas stores and online https://www.veritasbooksonline.com/how-to-be-our-best-self-during-times-of-crisis-9781847309754-45846/ 

 

If you are reading this you are probably old enough to have experienced a crisis before. You have
also probably survived that crisis and learned from it. The reason for this is that this is exactly what
humans do and we have being doing it since our first millennia on this planet. The way we do it is
by staying together. Our ancient ancestors faced worse challenges than we do today but they
hunted in pods and survived in their unity against adversity.

 

 

How to be our best Self During Times of Crisis


There will always be changes in our lives. We move from the cradle to the grave in a series of
transformations and life crisis. The child inside us dies, the adolescent grows up and the adult
eventually weakens and dies. We prefer the familiar, known and routine but the whole of the
cosmos and the natural world is in a state of flux and change. In order to be your best self in a
crisis it is important to firstly accept the change that has occurred and surrender to the necessary
process of redefining yourself. It is better to put your energies into becoming the thing you can be
instead of putting your energies into the person you know longer have the capacity to be.
No matter how unpleasant or uncomfortable a crisis might be they are part of the natural processes
of life. It is simply the way things are. Life changes as relationships fall apart and systems fail or
personal projects come asunder. Yet because crises are part of the dynamic of attempting to
navigate our way through a human life, it means that they are never really entirely good or bad in
themselves. It means that it is possible to become and experience our best selves in a crisis
because death is only the opposite to birth, it is not the opposite to life. When something ends, we
can become creators of the new.


A crisis like Covid is the first global pandemic that our generation has faced but our ancient
forebears faced many more. They became skilled and adept at negotiating them and passed on
those dynamics in myth, ritual and symbol. There are processes involved in accepting change and
exploring the possibilities that it brings. It is important to mourn the old but not to such an extent
that we are incapable of expanding our consciousness and recalibrating our identities. In ‘How To
Be Our Best Self In Times Of Crisis’ the reader can explore these processes and incorporate them
into their lives. Available to order now! https://www.veritasbooksonline.com/how-to-be-our-best-self-during-times-of-crisis-9781847309754-45846/