With the worst of the pandemic behind us and the best of the Spring season ahead, we need to be conscious of the physical and emotional toll our body has endured during the past difficult year, as we fully embrace the possibilities of the days ahead. 

Buddhists believe the cause of all suffering is attachment, and our greatest attachment is to life itself. When a virus we can not even see threatens our life, our reptilian brain goes into the fear mode, disrupting our physical and mental equilibrium state. 

Living in the past makes us hang on to anger for what did or did not happen. Living in the future makes us anxious about what may or may not happen. Being fully present, living in the moment now, now, and now again, moment by moment is the only way to live.

Spring is the season of renewal, not because we can recreate the past, but because we have the opportunity to create a new reality now, again, and again.  Highland Institute strives to help define and create a post-pandemic future, knowing that the Coronavirus has permanently changed all of our lives.

So instead of hanging on to the idea of “the good old days,” let us imagine a new world in which we can live content, moment by moment, experiencing The Power of Now.