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The Health | june-july, 2020
| Holistic Health |
The Covid inner
revelation
Re-emergence of our creative nature
By Jeganathan Ramachandram
Our eyes are the window to the
inner world. They not only see
but speak emotions that words
might fail to convey.
We recently posted in
social media asking people
at random to draw an eye. More than 50
people sent in their drawings. This survey
was done to demonstrate a unique emotion
that is resurfacing in this pandemic era.
People are naturally becoming creative.
One will notice the number of creative
outputs in social media recently.
Facebook and Instagram are filled with
so many different perspectives of creative
outpour, never seen before the pandemic.
The emotion of the inner creative
nature.
Covid-19 had done some damage, yet this
pandemic state has given almost all of us
time to unlock our inner creative self.
This pandemic period has seen us
unwinding, and though some are not able
to take this isolation, many have opened a
self-expressive dimension within.
The creative nature within us is now
finding ways to keep us going in these
trying times.
From the beginning, the hurdles in
life that we collectively experience have
a typical pattern. We face a crisis, and a
solution soon appears after that; only this
time, it might be extended a little longer.
Look at our faces now. We are
looking calmer, less stressed. The idea of
competition is lesser around us amidst the
pandemic period (these applies not to the
frontliners and others who are still going
to work).
The bond with our family and the
tolerance level within family members are
becoming more positive.
Staying within the home, we are
protected from the menace of comparison.
We are no more comparing or competing
with others. Look at our children. They
are probably studying better without the
competitive elements around them.
Right now, the face is breathing. With
hardly any makeup, and we are wearing
comfortable clothes that allow us freedom
and probably the pores are breathing
without stress.
We are not implying that we disown
cosmetics and fashion and not go to
workplace hereafter. (This shows how the
difference is making a change in our lives
at this present moment).
We are definite that a shift is happening
within our human brain. This “New Norm”
is slowly restructuring the way we see
life and our response. We are gradually
moving towards basic living. We are eating
healthier food and exercising with more
care. We are finding ways to face the bleak
future, which is definitely going to strike us
for at least another year.
Evolution has always handled such
situations before. This time, it is making a
correction within the brain faculty to guide
us through this crisis.
We were all born with a creative nature
and the logic discipline. Both are equally
important for wholesome growth.
The logic brain taught us discipline and
ways to keep the body and mind healthy.
While the creative nature in us made us
discover the emotions of the heart and
explored new possibilities of building
our confidence through the merging of
the heart and brain. In neuroscience, it is
known as ‘Heartbrain’.
The human growth, in the beginning,
was well-balanced. Creativity and logic in
the form of culture moulded society. Values
were spread through the arts. Literature
and paintings told stories of history and
moral values.
This influenced the logic brain to break
the borders of limitation and invent new
ideas that made human society grow into
an advanced civilisation.
But along the path, in a rush to rule
and control the mass, a particular quarter
manipulated art and science and made
them go separate ways. The greedy and
powerful made sure these two principles
never meet.
They knew the creative nature
had a tendency to expand our general
knowledge and take us into higher realms
of understanding. This nature will allow
humans to speak out and question rigid
systems. The powerful self-centred
rulers curbed the creative landscape and
introduced certain destructive doctrines
which gradually erased the creative
potency. We were made to follow the rules
through fear oriented disciplines that were
planted into many belief systems.
They made the science group benefit
more and misused their inventions. The
world of commercialism without quality
and care influence every walk of life.
From food to medicine to every possible
device that was used by the mass was
manipulated.