Just as the rumblings seemed to have slowed a bit, another disaster strikes. This time it comes from the bottom of the ocean, simultaneous with the sliding of the stock market, the continuing, and now seeming endless, war in Afghanistan, the upheavals of every variety and kind, including high unemployment. Having an optimistic attitude suffers from the need to know what is going on in the world. News sources pump out the fissures and fractures which seem to grow by leaps and bounds. Either ignoring all this, adopting an attitude that just blames someone or something else may work for some. It doesn’t seem to solve anything, nor does it reduce the crescendo of rising frustration.
Here are some ways to begin stablilizing your own sense of equanamity in the face of the multiplied crises affecting us all: