What Will Your New Normal Be?

After a year of teaching no in-person TCC classes due to the pandemic, I wonder if the old normal will ever return, or what a new normal might look like. While this world crisis has definitely upset the apple cart, it also has forced change and the need to think outside the box.

I would never have imagined teaching via the Internet while viewing my students on a TV screen. Yet now, after leading a few events in this way, I can report that it has been a good experience, one that enhanced teaching and learning, primarily because Zoom asks for and demands a keener focus and heightened level of awareness.

It has been a lesson in according with impermanence, which is one part of the twofold purpose for following a spiritual path (as so taught by Justin Stone). Most people resist change and therefore bring about unnecessary suffering. Adapting to Zoom provides a path to moving forward. This adopted resiliency expands our potential for good.

Fearing a changed future will not serve us. A deep knowing of who and what we are (the other part of the aforementioned twofold purpose) will motivate us and direct us forward. “Barn burned down. Now I can see the moon!” This is the true beauty and benefit of the TCC practice (and more so in integrating Seijaku and meditation).

How can you assist in this self-evolution? Increase your awareness through faithfulness to your practice and through attending available programs on Zoom. Clinging to the normal or familiar in our practice can result in becoming stuck.

We benefit by inviting new awareness which points us to an ever-evolving new normal. This is the path that will carry us and move us forward. Practice. Attend a program. Sign up for the teacher conference.