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Our Blue Blog is our life journal of how the water affects our mind, body and spirit. Through our own personal life experiences we tell our stories of life living with Blue. 

We are collectively grieving through Covid-19

Angela Mavredis

We are collectively grieving through this Covid-19 crisis. We are all just at different stages of our grieving process. 

In the first days of the lock down I had this intense energy to clean, reorganize, sanitize, prioritize basically if the word had ize in the end of it, I was doing it. It was my way to maintain some type of control over the situation. It’s the same thing that you do when you have a family member with a chronic illness or dying. You become so caught up in the process of trying to maintain some type of control over the situation that you don’t allow yourself to feel. You are running around speaking with doctors, administering home care routines, putting the household affairs in order all so you don’t actually confront the grief that your loved one will inevitably come to their end and you will need to process their loss. 

In the case of the Covid-19 crisis that individual who is in need of care is ourselves. We are slowly going through the grieving process to try and reach acceptance that we are losing a way of life that we had before.  Many of us are losing our livelihood, while others are losing family connections and needing to re-assess their life’s course. And yet still others are experiencing the trauma of losing a loved one to the virus and losing them without being able to be there for them. A trauma that will run deep in the fabric of the family unit. I read a piece that was discussing the differences between the countries and their approach and how they have experienced the Coronavirus and there was a line that stood out to me. 

 
We are in the same storm - but we are not in the same boat
— Anonymous
 

“We are in the same storm - but we are not in the same boat” - Anonymous



I saw it on one of my endless hours of scrolling through mindlessly on Instagram or maybe even Facebook. We most definitely are not all experiencing the crisis the same. The natural ebb and flow of this crisis places all of us in different stages of grief moving through denial to acceptance back to anger, back to denial, forward to bargaining, over to depression.  All to have it start again like a rollercoaster of highs, lows, twists, backwards and forwards throwing our minds and our harts in a gravitational pull that at times seems to have no end in clear sight. And just when you are beginning to settle in to the ride it comes to a complete halt again leaving you with that empty feeling of what to do next. Our grieving process is not linear. We aren’t seamlessly moving from one stage to the other. So on the days that I am in acceptance I find that I can create Blue Life journeys and programs for future travel and build into these journeys ways in which I can help others to recover from their personal traumas. Because one thing is for certain - this Covid-19 crisis has traumatized us in ways that we can’t even begin to understand. We will need to look to nature, look to the sea to navigate us through the trauma and show us how to heal. On other days when I am in denial I can spend hours watching Netflix on whatever mindless comedy I can find and in yet other days of anger I am working out more than Jennifer Lopez did preparing for Super Bowl.  Finally if during one of my bouts of anger I allow for the dreaded question to enter my head  “How did we get here?” - then the anger, turns to rage followed by an extended stay in the depression phase. 


In one of my days of acceptance, my 14 year old son took the below picture of me. In my pajama bottom and normal top (remember trying to keep some control). Albeit that the top has now shrunk from me washing at some obnoxious heat level to convince my mind that there isn’t any virus that has caught on to it from one of my walks. I at least try and convince myself that is the reason why my top shrank because I am not ready to face the possible fact that it hasn’t shrunk and its merely the result of  one of my phases of depression where I would eat a family size ice cream tub without the family. 

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Right after he took this picture, my son said with pure content “Wow mom you look so peaceful”.  It was in that moment that I understood that our children are watching us, observing, taking it all in how we process, how we react, how we address difficulties. How are we translating this crisis to our children, to our friends, to our loved ones not in the household unit with us? What are the non-verbal messages that we are communicating. From that picture and our subsequent conversation, I realized that we have to accept our connectedness. It’s not us -vs- the others. It is just that we all may be in different phases of our grieving cycle, of our life’s development. Maybe we haven’t lost a loved one before so the concept of losing someone to an invisible virus is difficult for the other person to understand. Maybe removing the busy “amazing” lifestyle away leaves people too vulnerable to see that they may be filling their life with things to do to compensate for an emptiness. Maybe staying at home reveals deep traumas that people aren’t ready to address. Maybe, just maybe even those who are pushed to the point of carrying a weapon have so much internal fear that they remain in an extended period of time in the anger phase of their grief. 

Through all of this there are some defining realities that we have to face. 

1. We will never be the same again

2. We are all connected for the good and the bad

3. Grief is not linear and it will circle back to us in unexpected times

4. We need to address the trauma of the Covid experience and find ways to heal

5. We have to make expressing compassion, empathy and kindness  to our self a priority

6. We need to always remember to look to nature to help us through, to show us how to heal

7. We need to be cognizant that each of us will experience the Covid crisis differently 

When I am in a state of acceptance and general internal peace - there is a clarity that arises, a voice that answers the question of how can I be of help to people. How can I use my skill set to help others. What do I want this company to stand for? What is Blue Life’s purpose? What is my purpose? In the coming weeks we will continue to share ways in which nature and the sea can help you through your grieving process. Hopefully something will resonate with you and you can find internal peace if only for a few moments. It’s enough time to open a window in your mind to an alternative narrative. Sometimes that’s all you need to embark on a different path, a kinder path on your self. 


I am OK with Today

Angela Mavredis

As I entered the second week of my stay-at-home guidelines, I made this “Wheel of Covid” because I found myself being so hard on myself for not being more productive, more creative, more spiritual, more, more, more of whatever. The amount of guilt that was rising to the surface was the culmination of years in intense corporate positions followed by running my own business, where its success or failure resides solely on my shoulders. I was diving, no, drowning in educational videos, consuming massive amounts of information in hopes of regaining some control over the person that I once was. I had hoped that I would emerge wiser, but what I was actually seeing was that I wasn’t emerging at all—emotionally, I was becoming more frail, vulnerable (and not the good kind), defensive, angry, and disappointed with myself. I couldn’t keep a program. I couldn’t finish a book. My monkey mind scattered out of control. I made the Covid-Wheel to trick my mind into thinking that it was ok to watch Netflix and enjoy 7 seasons of something in a massive binge because that’s what I needed. I needed to mentally be OK with how I was feeling for the day. Maybe what my mind-body needed some days was a total immersion in my practices: QiGong, Kundalini, Meditation, Prayer, and Hoōponopono. On other days, I had the need to organize or clean and yet on other days, I needed to step back from the news completely and watch comedy specials with humor to lift my spirits. As the days went on and I kept using the Wheel of Covid, I noticed that my creativity was coming back and a sense of balance was returning. I realized that I needed to be OK with doing nothing and once I became OK with doing nothing at all, my mind started to settle in for the long haul.

Beware the barrenness of a busy Life
— Socrates

Sure enough when my mind settled in and I accepted my feelings of the day, creativity came back to greet me. As it turns out creativity’s wellspring is when our minds are present, calm, relaxed free from judgement, free from deep in the subconscious mind of not feeling worthy enough. Sometimes we have to trick the mind, use the biology and mechanics of how the brain works to achieve a higher state of acceptance of self. When we can accept ourselves, accept the situation for what it is, accept the grief we actually end up liberating the mind from this endless loop of judgment. Try the Wheel of Covid. Customize it to your own personality traits. Make each section equal because they all have equal importance in your psyche. Let me know if it resonates with you. If you find some comfort in the activity. If my wheel works for you great! print it out and get started. Remember if you don’t like where you spin landed - you are a single player in the Wheel of Covid and can do as many do-overs that you want until the wheel lands on what you truly want to do for the day. You will know - remember to reward yourself to activate your reward system.

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How life prepares us for Transformation

Angela Mavredis

In 2005 I was faced with what seemed at the time an unachievable task. I needed to lay flat on my back and remain perfectly still for 9 months. I was allowed only to go to the bathroom to do my business and the occasional shower. Having miscarried 6 times prior (all male) it seemed like an endless journey of grief that had no end in sight. After a whirlwind of doctors I finally found the one who determined the reason behind my miscarriages so finally there was some ray of hope. I was determined to make it to the finish line this time. Now on my 7th pregnancy and due to all the miscarriages and subsequent necessary surgeries, my doctor advised that the only way to bring this pregnancy to term was to lay flat. He was explicit, direct and tough in his instructions - If you want to hold your son in your arms you will need to remain perfectly still for 9 months. That is 270 days 6,480 hours for a Type A personality like mine is eternity and insanity at the same time. My journey began with daily injections which I did myself, an immune system suppressant and blood thinner cocktail resulting in the critical need to stay inside. I couldn’t risk infections or injury of any type.

It was during this 9 month period that I decided to change my perception of this daunting ask. I decided to take the time to work on my meditation practice, dove deep into my understanding of spirituality and reevaluated what I wanted for Endless Blue, what kind of company I wanted it to become. We ended up having a record year for Endless Blue. Why? because I had the time to nurture myself, my baby and my client engagement. I had the time to self reflect, reassess priorities and grow as a human being. It was during this 9 month period of self isolation that I began to change. I wasn’t socially depressed but rather I was cocooning to help the transformation process reveal itself.

I changed my perspective and became laser focused on the end game. The 9 month duration was no longer viewed in dread but rather as an opportunity to strengthen my mind, perfect my craft and to use the words of Socrates - Know Thyself.

In order to transform, create a life, rebirth, raise your consciousness, heighten your frequency, it requires a deep dive into self and it requires isolation from outside stimuli. Yes I am grateful for the technology. It allowed me to travel farther in my mind, through music another great healer. In order for us to bring about transformation or a higher level of consciousness we must self isolate. We must dive deep to inner self to understand the lesson. We must look inside, question our beliefs, look at our faith, re-evaluate our priorities. We can’t do that when we are running at full speed in many cases mindless, running around to run around and with what purpose? At first it will appear that all will be lost, that we will self destruct but what actually arises is a new way of thinking, a new creative mind that allows you to prosper in different ways than you ever thought before. And deep inside there is a little voice and an alternate version of yourself that if you listen holds a signpost that says This Way —->

Today many if not all the clients from my 2005/2006 hiatus from the corporate world remain my friends. Not just acquaintances that we do the occasional thumbs up on Facebook - they became my most cherished friends because of the deep conversations about what they will experience on their journey sailing through the Greek Islands and being on the water. I was able to create the images in their mind on what was to come as that is what I do when I need to find peace to find stillness. Many of our travelers subsequently had their own transformative process when they were on their journey so there was a ripple effect of transformation from what at first seemed unbearable - staying still. This just proves how connected we really are.

I had a goal, similar to an athlete, bring a child into this world free from my negative thought. And like an athlete, you need to train, train your body, train your mind to achieve your goal. Self isolation, inner reflection and stillness allow you to hear the message. It allows you to transcend and achieve a higher self. That time period in my life was actually life preparing me for what was to come. Do I have down days and lose sight of what I’m trying to achieve - Absolutely. That’s ok that’s just part of the human process too. Today earth is asking us to take a break, our western medicine healers are asking for our help. Life is asking us to reassess and prepare for a higher level of engagement with one another. Life is asking us to go inside, inside our homes, inside our human vessel to begin the healing process. We just need to stop and listen. Stay safe, stay inside and stay still. The rewards will far outweigh the discomfort. They just need time to reveal themselves. We will get through together.

Now my postpartum journey is an entirely different experience but that’s for another post ;-)

Sat Nam

An on the water sailing discovery of Self

Angela Mavredis

An on the water discovery of Self guided by Blue Life Navigators chartering the course and enhancing your experience with ancient healing modalities. A 7 day journey on board a sailing catamaran through the Greek Islands October 1-8th. Our Finding Serenity Journey is a journey of self discovery to reflect on what has disrupted your internal calm, what factors and events have come into play that have created your tempest. 

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We are our Child's Vessel

Angela Mavredis

We are our child’s vessel for their life experience but that life experience is uniquely their own. Understanding and accepting that our child’s life experience may be shorter than our own is without a doubt one of the most complex emotions to navigate through in our own life experience. Our faith is tested, our relationships are tested and most of all our life’s purpose is challenged.

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Angela Mavredis

The poem Ithaca by Constantinos Cavafy is inspired by Homer's account of Odysseaus' journey home. It is a journey of self awareness. A journey of the mind and all that it creates. The poem captures the process of stripping away the false self to see life in its purest form. 

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The Muses of the Blue

Angela Mavredis

The muses of the Blue is a testimonial to all the people who have come through Endless Blue and each in their own way contributed to the creation of Blue Life. The article highlights the icons of inspiration, our Project Grace participants in the Release it to the Sea programs who demonstrate the sheer abyss of the human spirit and its ability to triumph when provided the cocoon to heal. 

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Blue Therapy

Angela Mavredis

Blue Life announces art therapy as an additional activity on your journey of emotional wellness and release. To heal the mind one must incorporate all forms of wellness modalities; music, art, nutrition, physical exertion and conversation. They all play their part in the total integrative approach to healing the soul. 

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