#27: Dealing with isolation & World changing documentaries

March 28, 2020

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Your weekly round-up of wisdom, habits, inspiration and practical solutions, including 100 documentaries we can use to change the World

#27: Dealing with isolation & World changing documentaries

Welcome to issue #27 of The Power Up, the curated email magazine from Man Body Spirit.

This was the week when the majority of global nations introduced tighter ‘lockdown’ guidelines for citizens, impacting lives and livelihoods all around the world.

Covid-19 remains the topic dominating our minds right now, as we get used to the idea that we could be experiencing this ‘new normal’ for months, as ‘social distancing’ of some form is likely to continue for as long as it takes to develop, test and rollout an effective vaccine.

These are unique times and they are impacting the mental, physical & spiritual health of many of us. So I hope this week’s selection can provide some help & respite.

Stay home, stay safe, stay healthy.

Adam

100 documentaries that might help us change the World

Unsurprisingly given the circumstances use of content streaming services has been growing exponentially.

But rather than watching Disney+ or playing endless Playstation (a friend commented this week how many of us adults are regressing to our teenage selves!), why not invest the time in content that might teach you something new or challenge your perspectives?

Documentaries have an incredible power to raise awareness and create transformative changes in consciousness both at personal and global levels.

The team at Films for Action have spent 13 years watching and cataloguing hundreds of social change documentaries.

This is their Top 100, handpicked for their quality, insight and potential to inspire positive change. All of them are either free, or can be rented online.

Mind

Calm down! Anxiety is contagious.

This short piece looks at how our emotions have a huge impact on those of others.

Merely seeing someone acting stressed, even a stranger, can elevate our own levels of cortisol. Therefore it’s particularly important that we be extra mindful of the signals we are giving off to those around us in challenging times such as these.

Body

Why it’s so exhausting to work from home

Those of us who have found our regular jobs transferred to a home office environment these past couple of weeks will have encountered a number of challenges.

For one, we’ve realised that we used to move around more than we realised during a typical work day, now that our area of operation has been reduced to that of a small home. And counterintuitively, even though many of us are sleeping in a little longer too, we’re finding ourselves more tired.

This article investigates that phenomenon, and looks at why time works differently at home.

Spirit

“I spent a year in Space, and I have tips on isolation to share”

If you’re concerned that being confined to the comfort of your own home might be a challenge, consider the experience of astronauts like Scott Kelly.

In this piece from the New York Times, Kelly shares his story and a series of practical tips to deal with isolation that can be applied to the situation we all now find ourselves in.

Bonus content

Six daily questions to ask yourself in quarantine

Taken from UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Magazine, here are six questions we can ask ourselves daily whilst in isolation, to check in on our mental, physical and spiritual states.

45 things to remember when the World gets scary

Writer Josh Spector shares a very timely list of 45 thoughts that can help us gain perspective and feel less worried and anxious about the current global situation. Share it with anyone you know who is struggling.

Podcast: The side effects of Social Distancing – Freakonomics

Whilst many of us are understandably preoccupied with looking after our families, our neighbours and ourselves, there are certainly broader societal and economic impacts of the Covid-19 situation.
The Freakonomics podcast discusses these with experts, providing some fresh perspectives, including some potential silver linings to this very black pandemic cloud.

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“Don’t perfect yourself. Perfect your love.“

Jack Kornfield

Thanks for reading, I hope you found some great value within this week’s edition. If so, please pass on a recommendation to your friends. If not, then please give me feedback on what more you would like to see. See you next time, Adam.

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