Everyone you meet grapples with challenges you are unaware of

I first read it on a sticker affixed to a mirror and was impressed: “Be kind, because everyone you meet is dealing with challenges you may not realize.” How true it was, and how much compassion and awareness it contained. Right in the middle of the frame in the mirror is my own title, with its troubles, troubles, dreams, hopes, joy and sadness, and this article, which I later learned was Plato's word in the lower right corner. I remember looking at myself and an article for a long time, smiling.

Don't you think there's a lot going on inside and outside right now? Even if you are doing your favorite and most enjoyable things, meeting with your favorite people, detoxing yourself by watching the news, is your first agenda based on worry, fear, and sometimes complaints due to the known epidemic?

The way we handle life, the way we live, and our reactions in difficult times are different for each of us. While some of us overcome the processes by laughing, pretending that there is no problem with the outside world, and brewing it inside, some of us go to bed with trouble from the first second to the last.

In my personal yoga practice for a while, for health reasons, I had to slow down, be gentle, and even give up many poses in which I had progressed - according to whom, according to what? - and return to the starting poses. There were two issues at once; both are more than enough to hurt me. One was in an area where I thought I was getting stronger, obviously because I tired myself out more often than I could handle. My body was nothing like my mind, thankfully, and gave the necessary warning to stop immediately, and as soon as I received this precious signal, I stopped.

In fact, we are all as strong as we are in the subject that hurts and wears us down the most.

The other point was that a situation that I had been interested in awareness for many years, I took care of myself in every way, I went through research and examinations, but my awareness alone was not enough for diagnosis and treatment had now reached a point where it could be diagnosed in an irrefutable way for physicians.

Even in matters that we seem to be in a strong communication with within ourselves and with much awareness, we are sometimes strong to the extent that the external conditions with which we communicate the most are strong.

If we bring our conversation to the dimension of relations between people who will turn from the inside out, the epidemic, which blockaded all of our lives, reached 27 people on December 31, shortly after it was first seen on December 12 in Wuhan Province of China. Just 2 days after the Wuhan province announced on January 11 that the virus had turned into an epidemic, the virus was detected in a country outside of China. The continuation is as you all know and experience.

If I were to start gathering what I wanted to share today from my own health, other parts of my body that have become stronger or have reached a certain flexibility did not help me to continue while I had the pain in my chest, it could not be. I was as free as the pain in my chest, as mobile as that pain allowed.

My self-awareness and my follow-up alone had a benefit, up to a point. I was able to protect myself as much as I had the knowledge and ideas predicted by the physicians I was in contact with. The world was able to protect itself as long as China and the Chinese people could detect and prevent the issue. And again, we will be safe, healthy and refreshed as much as we can be healthy, thanks to the discovery of vaccine and treatment by one or another, the power of self-sacrificing and veteran healthcare professionals.

That's why we have to develop together. Of course, I am aware that what I am talking about is not easy at all. Regardless of the subject you are interested in, you may feel like a person who has been wronged and wasted when you see those who do not show as much attention as you do about the epidemic or a personal issue, who do not understand the seriousness of the situation, and who make the situation worse. You may have anger towards those people who create these and similar situations. Allowing these -in fact- healthy feelings, seeing and noticing the existence of anger if it exists, but not turning it into violence, accepting its existence without resisting it, allowing it to transform in its own time without being caught in its swirl can be one of the best choices.

If we are to be successful at the end of the day, our intention is to strengthen our weakest link, internally and externally. Fernando Pessoa completed Plato's sentence that deeply affected me and I'm sure many of you who have read it or have read it before, as follows: "Don't make fun of anyone, never humiliate anyone, don't do this even in the farthest corner of your heart. Human life is too sad and serious to be ridiculed!”

My belief and invitation is that; the starting mind we need. The curiosity for those firsts, the level of understanding and support before the experiences. The state of being able to accept the possibility of going back to the beginning, if necessary, before life forces us to start over.

We can only do this together. With an awareness and compassionate attitude towards everyone and everything that we can reach, and as non-judgmental and friendly as possible to the areas and people that challenge us.

Maybe you have been following my articles for a while, maybe we met for the first time today. If you have a curiosity and enthusiasm about the possibility that this non-judgmental and friendly attitude can easily rise from within you without any coercion, then I have prepared 6 weeks for you to support those who want to understand your feelings about life more deeply, maintain this state of alertness, live this experience and protect it. I would like to announce that my program, which will continue, “Recognize Your Treasure” has started once again.

In the content of the program, I have blended my professional knowledge in the fields of yoga, meditation and mindfulness to present you with methods and information that are known and applied all over the world, which have contributed to making a difference in my own life, and that have followed thousands of people with their positive results.

Life is very precious to all of us. My aim is to contribute to the fact that more of us regularly contact the richness of their living spaces and live more through these tools and information that make a big difference in my life.

With your permission, I would like to bring to your attention a few comments from those who have just finished and completed the program I realized before that.