Dear LPG,

Keeping calm in a crisis is something that we have all been forced to do recently.  Some will argue that we have all been through and experienced the same crisis which has made it easier for us to understand the effects it is having on the people around us, but I am not so sure that that is altogether true. 

I know that just thinking about all the conflicting news reports became seriously frightening when this whole thing hit us in March, and that was crisis enough, but we have been living through it for so long now.   Many of the younger people we know are being encouraged to get back to normal, but we were told right from the start, that we older people are part of the group who are most likely to be seriously affected; news that I believe has had a really negative effect on each and every one of us. 

When something like that happens, human nature usually dictates that we find someone to hug, but for more than six months now that has not been allowed either.

Within all that we are each suffering, the news of varied types of long-distance problems that our family members and friends are involved with, if we have any, and often with ourselves if we don’t, has made for a really stressful existence all round, and it is this I want to talk about today.  We all know that these crises come in peaks and troughs, and the troughs often leave us in a thinking void which can be just as frightening for many of us; especially for those who are alone.

With all this in mind, during one of my troughs, I decided to ask the World Wide Web if there are any ways to counteract, or at least minimise the effects that crisis after crisis are having on us, and it came up with some answers. 

So I suggest that the next time there is a break in the effect that this world is having on you, it might be the time to listen to a few bits of internet advice on the subject.    I think that when our minds are weary many of us don’t want to read long passages of advice and so I went to YouTube where there is quite a lot to be found on ways to prepare yourself for the next peak, which you can watch while avoiding television news, while having a quite cuppa or which you can listen to while just closing your eyes for a couple of minutes.

I hope it helps….

OC, Lee

OC offers us some videos which he hopes might help to show us some of the whys and hows of keeping calm in a crisis…

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… and LPG has added a list of written suggestions for those who would rather read their way to calmness…

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