How to stay sane (and healthy) while staying mostly indoors

I’ve been dipping in and out of more than my usual anxiety and it is starting to feel like a new normal.

Like many others, it’s a result of worrying about loved ones, the isolation of working from home, being alone (and in a new country, too), and the never-ending deluge of COVID-19 news that.

Staying positive and taking care of our selves is more important than ever, and fortunately the forces of human goodness that is in this world has given us many aids. I’ll try to sum my favourite ones up here:

Healthy habits

I posted about this in my Essential Guide to COVID-19

Mental Health

Resources

That discomfort you’re feeling is grief. Here’s more on it

Feel-good

Watch livestreams of animals, from dogs to pandas to jellyfish

Meditate

The Calm app has free meditation resources on their blog, including a free session that helps you get back to sleep if you wake up in the middle of the night with anxiety
Here’s a free meditation course that helps you achieve your goals, offered by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Begins 25 March
Oprah and Deepak Chopra is offering a free 21-day meditation program

Spirituality