While
to those who are forced to stay home for two weeks, please abide to the instructions
and bear with the order. There might be some of you who are still required to
work from home. Well, at least you’ve something to do. For those who’re not
required to work from home like me, I believe you might feel a bit boring and there’s
nothing much you can do besides lying on your comfortable couch while scrolling
your android and consuming your newsfeed unnecessarily . Actually, there are plenty of other things that you can consider doing
at home. Here, I shall share with you what you can do while staying at home for 14 days in
six aspects of well-being.
1. PHYSICAL
I believe many of those workaholics would not have much time
to exercise due to their routine hectic schedules. Well, this two-weeks
duration is your time to really consider how you can do something for your
physical health. You may consider managing your weight through indoor exercising such as tabata, and healthy dietary planning. You may also consider daily yoga or planning for a 7 to 10
days detox program if you think that your body needs detoxification. There are plenty of guidance video found in Youtube, so I believe that there's no excuse for not knowing where to start.
2. MENTAL
Mental health is very important in keeping us going and living
up to our fullest potential. You may consider some self-enrichment or learning books
or videos to develop and enhance your soft skills, knowledge or even life
values. If you’re not fond of books, you may adopt a healthy hobby like
blogging, vlogging from home, gardening, cooking and etc. However, if you’re having
mental uneasiness, feeling anxious, fearful and need somebody to talk to,
please, please, please do not hesitate to call up to whom that may help you
such as BeFrienders (603-79568145), YBAM Online Psychological Guidance Service (http://bit.ly/3b5xGp0) or other consultation
platforms which might be familiar to you.
3. FAMILY
For those who stays with their family, it’s high time to
have more quality time with them. You may organise indoor activities that involves
you together with your family members. Those activities can be boardgames, cooking
together, doing house chores together, movies together, heart-to-heart chatting
and etc. While for those who are not staying with their family, you may make a
phone call to them and have some quality, long conversations with them. There
are internet video calls nowadays. If not applicable, then I believe that there are many
service providers providing unlimited call plans that you may subscribe to.
4. ECONOMY
Since you can’t go to work for the time-being. So, I think it’s
a good idea to start planning for your near future. You may do so through learning
up financial management and planning skills, or you may consider exploring
opportunities or possibilities for extra income such as investments or side
careers. I guess its high time to re-evaluate for ourselves how we spend our money
and to prospect how will our financial condition be in the coming five to ten
years. If there’s anyone who’re considering for extra income opportunities, you
may find me, but provided that you’re open and serious about it, and are willing to learn
and take up challenges.
5. INTERPERSONAL
You may consider catching up with your friends, ex-classmates
or ex-coursemates and strengthen your network which you could hardly do due to your
hectic schedule. However, please don’t get me wrong. I don’t mean that there’s
no need for social distancing. With the emergence of convenient networking
platform such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat or even Zoom, there’s no
excuse for us to not engage with our friends, especially those who’re categorized under lost-in-connection individuals. You may use this platform to express your care for them and
even to have some quality conversations with them. Furthermore, you may utilize the
convenience of the group-chat feature to start a discussion on a topic in the group.
It doesn’t have to be something that’s debatable, it can be a sharing among the
group members, for example how they are planning to go through in this 14-days of
restriction period.
6. SPIRITUAL
Depends on people, each and everyone of us have different religions and have different perspectives on spirituality. For me as a Buddhist, I can utilize my time with daily paritta
chanting, reading Dhamma books, studying some Buddhist scriptures, listening to
Dhamma talk recordings and spend some time for peaceful meditations. For others,
you may consider doing your daily prayers, listening to sermons and even do
some studies on your religious books or scriptures to enhance your
spirituality.
Yes, there’s indeed many things that we can do to utilize this
14-day restriction period. Instead of excessive scrolling on Facebook without
any objectives or indulging ourselves with all those negatives sentimental posts
and comments, why not considering utilizing this period more purposefully? I’m
sure after 14-days, besides seeing the outbreak subsiding nationwide, hopefully,
we might be seeing ourselves much happier. Who knows, after this 14-days
period, you might discover what matters to you the most or you might have a clarity
on the purpose of your life. For everyone’s information, I adapted these six
aspects in reference to the Nalanda Buddhist Society’s six well-beings, and it's applicable to everyone regardless of your races and religions. This is
merely just my sharing, and also a part of my time-utilizing activity. Well, think about
it, my dear readers.
May everyone be well, be healthy and be peaceful.
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#keepcalmandstayathomepurposefully
#nalandasixwellbeings
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