Ayesha Farooq
In the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, we faced many difficult situations in everyday life, trying to weigh risk and decide whether to meet up or stay home, send kids to school or visit the gym.
In some ways, this is a relief—our minds get decision fatigue in the face of so many choices. Now we have our instructions, which are restrictive but useful to our brains. But many other types of uncertainty still remain, about things like our jobs, because a lot of businesses crises in early days, so no one knows about their jobs, will remain or not and A lot of tension in nowadays when we will see our loved ones and return to some normal routines.
This is not a good place for our thoughts. As a psychotherapist, I know that getting through this time will involve getting a grip on our minds. We need to focus on what is reassuring and positive, and what we can control. We can control our minds, at least to some extent. We can start small. Here are some things to work on…
Take a news break:
Checking the news headline about viruses,risk, deaths, and viruses is increasing day by day so then we are afraid what is next now, etc so u should take a news break Instead of checking the news, notice what happens if you take a walk in nature. Nature has huge stress-relieving effects. The birds aren’t worried. The trees are growing. Your body is working. You can remind yourself that some basic things are still in place
Read a happy book:
Read a book about happiness, success, self-help, or another positive subject. And think positive like everything will be fine as soon
Create some quarantine art:
Channel your feelings by doing something creative. Painting sketching is a great way to express yourself, learn a new skill.
Worship:
People around the world are avoiding crowded places so many people performs prayers because coronavirus is a form of torment for all of us so we should pray for forgiveness and pray for happiness we are all in this same situation together, everything will be fine soon InshaAllah.
–The writer is staff member and a student of BS Media Studies