"The Marvelous Things that Aloneness Brings": musings with Chad during coronavirus "isolation"

"The Marvelous Things that Aloneness Brings."
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I'm totally stealing that phrase from my friend & colleague, Chad Johnson, who I had the opportunity to chat with recently about the potential gift of this time of seeming seclusion. After laughing about the fact that he is experiencing as much if not more connection than he did before the quarantine began, Chad posed an important question about this time of collective isolation:
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What if we could be more curious about what wants to emerge now than stuck on wishing it wasn't this way?

Chad and I are both training in Organic Intelligence (O.I.) (a trauma healing therapy that is based in complexity science and biological re-synchronization), and it was fun to connect dots and to integrate some of the understanding that O.I. has provided us about how to "be with" what is.

A teacher of ours reminded me recently that anything and everything that arises in my mind, heart and body is arising in the now. Thoughts, emotions, images and sensations that seem related to the past or the future may seem to pull me away, but ultimately, I AM HERE NOW. And from that awareness, I can find my innate curiosity to respond from an oriented place to the circumstances in which I find myself, whatever they may be.

Some questions that arose from this dialogue with Chad that have been helpful for me:

*What if I could look back on this time with gratitude about what emerged from the unknown?

*When I'm inhibited from working in the ways I am used to, how can I redirect my work to stay engaged while accepting the new circumstances? How can I stay curious and allow the flow of my life force to continue on in new ways in this time? In the midst of change, how can I keep my channels of experience open?

*How can I live in this time (and in all times) oriented to the now as an opportunity for goodness?

My Organic Intelligence integrates naturally, automatically, and without effort, if I can reside in the freshness of now.

Thanks Chad for the dialogue. Here's a clip of my chat with the insightful cosmonaut!