YOUR
PERSONAL KEY TO SURVIVING
THIS COVID-19
PANDEMIC
(THE SECOND OF A 4-PART
SERIES FROM THE 4WISDOMS ACADEMY)
Dr. Nicolas Kimaz asks THE
QUESTION OF THE DAY
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
If
surviving this Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic was the premise for a book of
fiction, a movie script, or even a TV docudrama, the question “What Happens
Next?” is what every writer hopes the reader will be saying excitedly with
every turn of the page. In literary circles, this is called a “page-turner”, a story that has its audience in the grip of suspense and intrigue, holding its
collective breath waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Well,
this is no work of fiction – the virus is real, and every person is caught up
in its insidious web. I’ve said many times your life is your story and each day
you are writing a new page, but one day you found your story spiraling out of
control, taking a devasting turn no one could see coming. Your life has
definitely become a page-turner, begging the question, “WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?”
As
is usually the case, there is bad news and there is good news. In this case,
the bad news is you’ve found yourself in deep water through no fault of your
own, and water seems to be getting deeper each day and your boat has sprung
serious leaks. But the good news is, this is your story, so believe it or not,
as bad as things might be looking right now, what happens next is really up to
you.
You see, you are the principal character in your
story, the hero who we all root for to overcome whatever challenges he/she
faces. So, in spite of the devastation that leaves you worrying about job
security, income, providing for your family, paying your bills, and an economy
balancing on the brink, you remain the hero in your story. That means it’s up
to you to find the daylight in the darkness, to find the leaks in the boat and
the needed sealant, and to be the support so desperately needed by everyone who
depends upon you. It’s a daunting responsibility but we learn from the Ultimate
Survival Book, the Holy Bible, that our Creator, God, will always be there to
help us see our way through whatever difficulties confront us.
Fear not, for I am with you; be
not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will
uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah
41:10
My
name is Dr. Nicolas Kimaz, N.D., creator and founder of 4wisdoms.com, sharing with you a key to the Wisdom Code, the code
with the power to ACTIVATE your spiritual awareness which will TRANSFORM your
life and provide clarity through this chaos if you are willing to let go of
your old story and write a new one for yourself.
I know of what I speak because I have
experienced every emotion that you are now experiencing; I reached a point in
my life where I had no idea what was going to happen in my story next. By all
appearances I had no hope for even survival, much less any kind of happy
ending.
I’m not proud to
say it but I was the picture of hopelessness and in looking back I now see it
was according to Divine Plan.
I had to be
knocked flat on my back to get me to look up and see my Lord standing by my bed
admonishing me, “Get up. I have changed your life”.
That
nocturnal visit from my Lord and Savior did change my life entirely when I was
granted the secret code of the 4Wisdoms of Jesus Christ. From that moment, the moment of my spiritual
activation, my story took on a brand-new premise and my life became a new story, a true
page-turner in every respect with His signature on every page. It was His
presence in my life that enabled me to be victorious over the plague of failure
that had infected my very existence.
That same victory
can be yours starting at this very instant if you’ll just open your heart and
mind to your role in this crisis and how this pandemic plays out in your life,
your story. There has never been a better time for you to take up the sword and
shield of faith and emerge the hero you were incarnated to be.
But I digress. In no way would I make light of the seriousness of the
Covid-19 virus and its devastation. In these
unprecedented times brought on by the pandemic, businesses are on hiatus and
the streets see less traffic, but there is utter panic behind all the closed
doors. And it’s nearly impossible to find an encouraging word. We can’t rely on
the media that seem intent primarily on keeping us up to date on body counts
and experts trying to place blame. And with government leaders and health
officials frantically trying to figure out what to do next, how in the world
are we supposed to know what to do? As a result of the confusion, an
uprising sparked by fear and panic is taking root in every corner of the globe
and snaking its way into every corner of your home.
With all this upheaval
– working from home (those fortunate enough to still have jobs), finding new
routines, a panic clamoring for masks, paper goods, and disinfectant, and the suggestion of a lingering food shortage – it’s difficult not to feel overwhelmed. But
that doesn’t mean all is lost.
I have good news
for you, news that I shared in the first of this 4-part series of blogs. THE
KEY TO WEATHERING THE STORM OF THIS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS LEARNING HOW TO CONNECT
WITH AND DEVELOP YOUR INNATE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE!
What does that
mean exactly? It means the world as we knew it is never going to be the same
and as a result, we’re going to be confronted with some challenges that will
serve to shake the very foundations of our belief systems and how we’ve lived
our lives. There will be so many more questions but answers to the question
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? as it relates to you, won’t be found anywhere else but
inside of you, in your SPIRIT SELF, through the activation of divine wisdom
within you brought about by a renewed relationship with God.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of
the Holy One is insight.
Proverbs
9:10
You no doubt have gleaned considerable knowledge throughout the
years, about life, about work, about getting along in the world, but it’s only
through a true relationship with your Lord and Savior that you are graced with
divine WISDOM. I speak from personal experience. The first 25 years of my life,
I thought I had enough knowledge to rule the world, but as it turned out I
didn’t have enough to even rule my own life. I got an education, was successful
in business, made lots of money producing movies in Hollywood but what I lacked
was WISDOM and with every step forward I’d end up falling two steps back until
finally, I ran out of steps and by all appearances my world had ended.
Perhaps you are entertaining some of those same thoughts and
feelings now with everything that’s going on. I hear you; I feel you. But with
divine guidance, I channeled the wisdom of Jesus Christ into The 4Wisdom Academy
and now being called upon by world leaders from around the globe to help them find
their own inner wisdom, their own spiritual activation. It’s a special wisdom
code based on the power of 4 to rejuvenate the physical being, the mental, the
emotional, and the spiritual being. It is a process that is not of this world,
enabling you to focus on the wisdom of Jesus Christ to scale to a higher state
of being. And the first step in the process is acknowledging our true innate
power.
You see, while you can’t change or control many of the elements of
the situation you find yourself in, you retain the power to control how
you handle this present moment, and what you choose at this moment can
actually, shift your emotional state. It’s going to require a degree of
imagination, creativity, and patience as you find yourself having to manage what
is going on in your household, how and when you venture out to do essential
shopping, and how you’re going to deal with work and finances. Many of those
decisions were made for you by other people or circumstances, but now it’s
fallen on your shoulders. Through no intention or fault of your own, you have
been thrown into a management position which is why it’s time to assess and
perhaps acquire new self-management skills by ridding yourself of limiting beliefs
that keep you from embracing new thoughts and attitudes.
Please know that
I’m very aware of how easy to feel totally victimized by the circumstance we find
ourselves in but there is hope, and that hope is found in moving from limiting
beliefs to Divine emotional intelligence, and the 4 keys to achieving that
state of being are SELF-AWARENESS, SELF-MANAGEMENT, EMPATHY, AND SOCIAL SKILLS,
as presented in my 1st blog on self-awareness. This is the 2nd
blog stressing the importance of SELF-MANAGEMENT especially during this
crisis.
Self-management,
which is also referred to as “self-control” or “self-regulation,” may sound more
daunting initially than what it actually is. It is simply the ability to
regulate your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different
situations, especially during a crisis like what we find ourselves in. This
includes managing stress, delaying gratification, motivating oneself, and
shifting thoughts about your work and other personal responsibilities and
especially how you are going to go about being your own boss.
That’s right. I said,
“being your own boss”. Most of us have the misconception that to be your own
boss, you need to own a company or work exclusively for yourself. However,
during this time of upheaval and self-quarantine, we are thrown involuntarily
into the position of being our own bosses, and focusing on self-management is a
great way to strengthen this skill. With some kindness, patience, and
habit-forming behaviors, all attributes of emotional intelligence, we can
adjust rather quickly and painlessly to be the manager people are depending on
you to be.
To best
understand emotional intelligence is to understand the opposite of emotional
intelligence: LIMITING BELIEFS!
The fact of the matter is unless
we train it to do otherwise, our brains limit us, reminding us that because we
can no longer go about our business as we once did, that we can no longer feel
secure.. We have spent a lifetime building our worlds upon a particular foundation,
a set of beliefs and rules, and unfortunately, those foundations have been
shaken so badly that they fail to support us as the storms of disease assail us.
From personal beliefs about yourself to the rules found in self-help books, to
the policies of the big religions, every “system” only provides a fresh set of
limitations to hold you back. That
is why The 4Wisdoms introduces you to the concept of EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
This
is not to say you don’t have a right to feel whatever your feeling. What’s
important is (a) you are in touch with your emotions, and (b) that you remain
very aware of your feelings. The connection of your thought processes and the
power of your heart or emotions results in the balance of compassion, empathic
wisdom, the wisdom of Jesus Christ, to approach every challenge
Relying
entirely on your thinking which often becomes irrational in times of crisis
like what you find yourself in, unfortunately, creates a strong temptation to
indulge in what has become a national pastime – THE BLAME GAME. It’s so easy to
blame. No matter where you look, you see people playing this game – lawmakers,
politicians, businesses of all sizes, local government and national government
, friends, neighbors, co-workers, even families – everyone so anxious to blame someone,
something, for the devastation of this pandemic that has impacted every human
being in one way or another.
The
problem with the Blame Game is, there are no winners. Play all you want, go all
in, but there’s not a chance you’ll win. The solution: don’t play. While
everyone else is being consumed with blaming, you emerge a victor by moving
into EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, activating the Divine mind and the Spirit heart to
work in concert. The Blame Game is no more than a cognitive distortion, the
devil’s device, the mind throwing a tantrum over what it has absolutely no
control over resulting in anger, frustration, anxiety, hostility, resentment,
and fear. When we allow
this crisis to make us feel like victims due to our limiting beliefs, we may
find it difficult to depend even on the power of prayer because it’s so easy to
blame even God for whatever travail we are experiencing.
The
Code of The 4Wisdoms, what I’m committed to sharing with you here, is designed
to prevent you from falling into this trap. Oh sure, the virus started
somewhere, with someone, and we can point fingers all day long for how it found
its way into our workplaces, our stores, our banks, even our homes. You have
every right to feel that someone must be held accountable, that someone must
make all these wrongs right again for us. But those cries for retribution are
going to get lost in the noise of fear and frustration and will only serve to
augment your anger. Your justified outrage will change nothing.
The sad fact of the matter is, the face of humanity and how it functions must
embrace significant change if any semblance of social and economic order is to
be restored. What does that mean for you? It’s the answer to the question, WHAT
HAPPENS NEXT? It means that in order to continue to thrive, to protect your
earning power, to care for your families, requires you to take your place in a
society that that has braced itself for change. Because of the residual effects
of the virus, a major paradigm shift must manifest in how we go about our daily
lives, how we shop, how we socialize, how we go about our work, how we travel.
And furthermore, it means you are going to have to be able to conform to those
changes.
I
CAN AND I WILL. Do you feel the power in those statements?
There is little doubt that
dramatic change is afoot in every facet of our lives and it is easy to get
swept up by the emotional weight of these shifts. But a shift in attitude
through self-reflection will help you realize that as a child of God, you have
the forces of the Universe to help you realign with your divine spirit energies
so you never lose grip on your inner power. This spiritual awakening is your
key to developing self-management tools to build from the embers of this
pandemic the reality you desire, making certain you don’t unintentionally
magnetize more darkness and despair.
All of our situations are different. As we adapt, we won’t be perfect. And that’s OK. Just because you’re moving into a position of self-management doesn't mean you have to become superhuman. This is a long-game process.
This pandemic will not end soon. Life as we know it will never be the same. Change is imminent and we must become adaptable to change as well. Things will continue to have us in a tailspin, but that doesn't mean we have to let the turbulent times victimize us. If we can slow ourselves down long enough to realize that we don’t have to have it all together, have all the answers, we can start to reframe these days as opportunities for grace, rather than demands for superhuman strength.
Think
of this as the opening up of a Divinely powerful Portal of
Opportunity, an opportunity to take control of your
mental and emotional faculties and be transformed by the ACTIVATION of the Holy
Spirit in your life, igniting within you the energizing spark of the 4Wisdoms:
purpose, passion, prayers, and path, in essence, the rewriting of your new story.
“It has changed my life and
can change yours too absolutely. It doesn’t matter what’s
going on with you … despite the scope and scale of your problems, there are
solutions in Christ’s wisdom.”
Dr.
Nicolas Kimaz, N.D.
(from his book, The 4 Wisdoms/Indoctrination)
(from his book, The 4 Wisdoms/Indoctrination)
Sharpening your
self-management skill sets will serve to energize divine illumination during this
darkest of times. As you learn to see with spirit eyes, you’ll discover what
this all means for YOU as an individual. This calamity with all its fallout is serving to open a portal of spiritual awareness for you. Through
Divine intervention, spiritual activation, and transformation, all vital
elements of self-management, wisdom will be revealed how to thrive in this
climate of forced change as you wrap your head around the concept of limitless
possibilities. Jesus Himself said to His disciples, “With men this is
impossible, but with God, all things are possible”. (Matthew 19:26). And in
Hebrews 13:5, Jesus is quoted as saying, “I will never desert you, nor will
I ever forsake you.”
A major key to Self-Management
involves doing something different now than what you have done in the past
(e.g., stepping out of old comfort zones, choosing a new perspective when
considering issues, breaking old destructive habits, etc.) in order to achieve
desired outcomes. This requires you to reconsider how you approach situations
and make decisions.
The most effective
strategies are proactive and involve action long before the distraction or
decision point occurs. In essence, emotional intelligence becomes your new
modus operandi, which requires establishing new patterns of thinking and
feeling beyond long-established limiting beliefs. The best proactive strategy
is communication with your Higher Power through daily prayer.
You might try thinking twice
about a situation and choose actions that make distractions less appealing or
make the long-term goals more appealing. Monitoring your impulses will become
important as well as attempt to suppress any undesired habit or emotion.
Impulse/emotion suppression strategies are challenging to implement and require
the most cognitive energy to attempt.
Since
these are cognitive strategies involving substantial paradigm shifts, it may
require some time to create this new comfort zone for yourself. Self-management
skills require you to reconsider what captures your interest and attention (“ …
lead us not into temptation …”) and develop the ability to determine
instinctively what is part of your problem or what is part of your solution,
and focus on solutions to your newly established goals.
When it’s all said and done, the most effective strategy for self-management, which is positive thinking plus a dose of reality, contains four steps:
- Identify an important but feasible desire or goal that you want to achieve.
- Imagine, as vividly as possible, what the future will be like once this desire or goal is achieved.
- Imagine the most critical personal obstacle that stands in the way of achieving your desire.
- Invite the Holy Spirit to activate your spiritual awakening and provide you with the wisdom to plan how to eliminate or overcome the obstacle (behavior patterns, cognitive distortions, destructive patterns, or habits) in accordance with God’s plan for your life.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
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Practicing
Self-management through a spiritual awakening is about realizing that freedom comes from inside. It’s about letting go of limiting thoughts so that you can
discover your own true spiritual power through the love of our Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ.
I serve the risen
Savior. I invite you to join me today. For more information about
Self-Management through a relationship with God, please feel free to contact
me.
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Dr. Nicolas Kimaz, N.D.
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Dr. Nicolas Kimaz N.D.
a Naturopathic Doctor, a Bible teacher, an author, a motivational speaker and
spiritual guide for leaders
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