How to divert ourselves from covid anxiety / apprehension

- Do some different work from your routine
- Try to be a leftie for some work like buttoning your shirt, sweeping with left hand, washing face Anti clockwise
- Try a different meal of your choice
- Practice journalling, studies say that if you write your worrying thoughts over a piece of paper half of them will vanish

- Maintain a gratitude journal

- Remember most difficult situation or circumstances of your life and how you made it over
- Make courtesy call to your friends or relatives whom you have not contacted for a while

- Write up a thank you note or message to the one who has helped over the crisis period

- Do brisk walking and deep breathing
- Have a moonlight dinner at home with if you have private terrace
- Play your forgotten childhood games with your kids if they are small (Name place thing, words building, Hide and seek,)

- Play mind engaging games like solving sudoku, puzzles, rubies cube, chess
- Keep your elderly Engaged by asking them to support for their favourite meal prep or recipe like cutting vegetables

- Try knitting or embroidery or any kind of art

- Pursue your missed passion like trying to learn music, art or collections
- Do practice charity within your capacity if you wish
- Try engaging in online social service, I know a volunteer group where they help preparing presentation slides for schools
- Feed dogs, birds, crow, cows water or food
- Feed homeless platform dwellers
- Practice cycling shorter distance
- Connect with your nearest old age home or orphanage they might needs some meds or physical help like buying grocery or veggies
- Support your old aged people with children abroad at your apartment society by connecting with them
This is list may sound repetitive and not exhaustive

After all there is a lot we can do to ourselves, our family and society useful in our life rather reading negative news and just worrying

This too shall pass by human race has survived pandemic with no advanced medical care

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