How To Make Yourself Productive During Corona / COVID-19 Pandemic Quarantine/Lockdown.

   Hello friends!

Today we all are facing a threat called COVID-19 caused due to corona virus. This virus has forced us to shut down our daily activities and is affecting us in ways unimaginable. Each and every one of us is affected adversely shutting us inside our houses and ceasing our activities like going to job, meeting parents, relatives and friends, traveling, dining out, shopping etc. We are confined in a room and are unable to get out even if we want to. I would like to thank you for it because you staying at home is helping saving lives of yourself and others as well. Each one of you is contributing to it. 

Thank you.

But this so called self-quarantine or home confinement or house arrest maybe frustrating to you. Suddenly ceasing all activities and sitting at home is driving many crazy. Most of us are worrying about managing finances and running business. In this dark time, I have good news for you- “It’s not going to last forever”. We all are going to win over it and make the future brighter. But one question remains though, “How are you going to make yourself productive sitting at home and stop yourself from driving insane?”

So friends, I have an amazing solution to this problem. Sit back and read carefully to what I am about to say.

   

 Ways To Make Yourself Productive During Corona/COVID-19 Pandemic:

1)      Identify your problem: When you are forced to be in a physical confinement, you are at mercy of your mind. Thoughts come and go in your mind constantly and you cannot stop it. Only this time you’re more aware of these thoughts. If most of the thoughts are morally wrong then you can find yourself in frustration, angry and worst case scenario violent. You may end up hurting yourself and people around you. So our focus on solving this problem is to deal with our physical and mental issues.

2)      Start exercising physically and mentally:

Daily you spend certain amount of calories performing our daily activities. But now you are siting are home either working on laptop or watching TV or performing indoor activities like cleaning the house, washing clothes. This does not help to burn enough calories which you usually do. So start exercising daily. It can be lifting weights, jogging or running on treadmill, doing yoga, dance or anything involving vigorous physical activity for atleast 30 min daily indoors. Similarly exercise of mind is also necessary. Actually it would not be wrong to say that mental exercise is more important than physical.

You may wonder what is a mental exercise . The answer is pretty simple meditation is your mental exercise. But not just any meditation. There are thousands of meditation techniques and all are effective in their own ways. But I would recommend you to do a simple and most effective meditation technique called “ Ana pan sati” which is ancient Indian language Pali and it translates to “being mindful of breathing”.

I will explain this in little detail. You sit in most comfortable position you would like. Relax yourself, close your eyes and bring your entire attention to nostrils. At your nostrils, you will observe your every breath inhaling and exhaling slowly without intervening with the breathing pattern. Initially you will find it very difficult to keep your mind focused on breathing because your mind is like a monkey. It will wander away jumping from thought after thought and you will lose attention from breathing. Suddenly you’ll realize you have to focus on breathing and you will bring your mind back to observing breathing. You’ve to bring your wandering mind back to breathing again and again; may the thought be very tempting or disturbing but you have to bring your focus back to breathing. Initially you will find a shorter span of attention over breathing but eventually with practice it will increase.

Now you may ask me how is this going to help me maintain my mental health.

Again the answer is pretty simple. But first you must know a fact that our mind is trained to react to everything going around us. From birth till death, your mind is constantly non-stop reacting to each and everything going around. When you are confined at home your mind starts getting frustrated and starts reacting more due to physical confinement. By doing this meditation practice you will control your reaction easily which you usually cannot do. The practice of bringing your mind back to breathing is a kind of exercise which trains our mind to control reactions and not necessarily react to each and every situation around us. This ensures that we do not react much too any emotions like anger, frustration, depression and jealousy. This exercise of mind will ensure you mental health and maintain happiness and peace of mind. This eventually will contribute to better decision making in this period of crisis.

3)      Learn something new:

I would recommend you all learn something new. I will tell you what I am learning. I am learning to cook delicious food recipes. You can learn anything. It could be cooking, singing, any musical instrument, shooting videos, explore the internet, learn a new language and the list is never ending. Now you have time to learn something new then do it. This will keep your mind engaged and obviously it will contribute immensely in your productivity.

4)      Organize your daily schedule:

I have observed that now all are at home so nobody is paying attention to their respective daily schedule. People are up late night and get up late in the morning. The entire routine is disturbed. This affects your health as well as your morale. You may be feeling low on energy. The disturbed schedule is to blame. So I recommend you all to start your day as early as possible and organize it in a good way. You can make a time table on a paper and stick it next to mirror in the bathroom. It will remind you of how to begin your day and guide you well. There should be a separate section on when to use mobile should also be mentioned. Mobile phones consume our major chunk of time without us realizing and bring our productivity down.

5)      Spend quality time with yourself  and family:

All these years you have been complaining that you don’t have enough time to spend it with family, relatives and friends. Now you are locked with them in the house so sit with them, talk to them, play games with them and help each other to keep your surrounding clean and tidy. Clean house and loving caring people around us will make this lockdown look an easy task. They will support you in this crisis and you should return the favor too.

This crisis has given us an opportunity to grow ourselves in territories which we have never explored in life. This crisis is teaching us to be more responsible towards our families, community and nature. I am pretty sure when this will get over, every one of us will emerge a better person.

Stay home and stay safe. That is all is needed right now. Don’t wander out of the house for fun. As I said earlier this will also pass away. We all are going to build a great future ahead. To do this we must conserve our present and act wisely on it. Peace!


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