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We all deal with grief in different ways. We want to go through it in a healthy way and by embracing where we are and then doing what we need to do to get through those stages. So how we deal with those five stages, how healthy we can allow ourselves… This is the key. The choices we make right now are determining the world that is emerging. We’re entering into a new normal, and the question is, what does that new normal look like? The answer is we don’t know because we’re determining it right now.
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We can’t go back, Brian, to the world that we knew three or four weeks ago because that world no longer exists. I do live events, and I have producers who are asking me to make commitments for events in the near future as if nothing has happened, believing that when the isolation is over, everything goes back to normal. It’s a form of denial and I’m experiencing this now with people I work with. Normalcy bias is where we attempt to live life as normal as we always have in the presence of circumstances that are anything but normal. There’s something called normalcy bias in psychological terms. Number one, how can we deal with the problem unless we’re honest with ourselves about the problem? So, honestly, acknowledging that this is what’s happening.
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We accept it, we embrace it, and we say, “Okay, what’s next? Where do we go?” And I think it’s important for us to acknowledge that this is happening to us. The acceptance is where we begin looking beyond what’s happening now. Some people are in the bargaining stage right now where we’re looking for meaning, we’re reaching out to others. We’re trying to get to the bargaining and the acceptance. The denial, the anger, the depression is pretty much, I think where most people somewhere in there right now. When we go through those stages, we can go through these stages relatively quickly if we acknowledge and embrace them, or we can drag them out by refusing to acknowledge what’s happening. We’re in grief because we’d lost a way of life. So it’s not just like coming at us from all over for no apparent reason. First of all, acknowledging these stages of grief, it gives us a structure within which to view what’s happening to us right now. So we are as a planet, we’re dealing with us, and I think it’s important to acknowledge this, Brian, so that we can move through, it gives a structure. Depression, the characteristics of that being feeling overwhelmed, helpless, wanting to just run away. The characteristics of the anger, anxiety and we’re having a lot of people saying they’re dealing with anxiety issues, problems sleeping, frustration, they’re irritable. The characteristics of denial is fear, so many people are in fear, shock, confusion, avoidance. The first one is denial, the second one is anger, the third is depression, the fourth is bargaining and the fifth is acceptance. We are experiencing another kind of loss, but the five stages still apply, so very quickly, those five stages. The grief cycle often is we hear about in terms of death, when someone dies, the five stages of accepting that death. And I can’t do a better job than Elisabeth Kubler-Ross did talking about the grief cycle. And that loss to us is like any other loss, and in the process of grief. We’re social beings and we are no longer able to gather together the way that we have in the past, conferences, social gatherings, meals and restaurants, athletic events, concerts, all of the movies, all of those kinds of things. The way that we were living our lives three weeks ago, four weeks ago, we’ve lost that. We are grieving the loss of a way of life. We are all in grief, and the question is, what are we grieving? The answer to that surprises a lot of people. We are all in grief, knowingly or unknowingly, consciously or subconsciously, and whether we acknowledge it or not. There is depression.Īnd what I want to say to our viewing audience right now is that our entire planet for the very first time… I don’t think we’ve ever had this in recorded human history, for the first time we are simultaneously going through a process of grief. What I’ve seen in my own community and I’ve seen it in my physical community and I’ve seen that in my digital community online is there’s a lot of anger. What I don’t see anyone talking about is what’s happening to us emotionally. We’re talking about the virus, the logistics, the physical impact, mitigation, vaccines, medicines, all of that. I don’t hear many people talking about this at all, Brian. Gregg Braden: This is a really interesting point, and I don’t hear the media talking about this.
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Excerpt of Gregg Braden interview with Brian Rose of London Real.įor those who prefer to read I am including a full transcript below