Once in a century, the world faces such an epidemic. The Covid-19 epidemic is an epidemic that coincides with our time and deeply affects the whole world. We are going through it with losses and gains, and we are starting to return to normal. Well, we, as creatures that are resilient to all kinds of hardships and are adaptive, that is, able to adapt to innovations and difficulties, will overcome this and protect and improve our norms.
So, what is normal and how will we return to normal life?
Normal is the way we live in society, which is similar, harmonious and repetitive, and makes people feel safe. We are waiting for this process to end, in which we cannot even do our daily routines such as going to work, going to school, maintaining social relations, shopping and doing sports. This process, in which politics, law, science, health, education, technology and all kinds of phenomena, from personal to global, will be restructured, will certainly last a long time. So what is the nature of this waiting and what should it be?
It is necessary to develop a conscious and active waiting
The days of anxiety, fear and losses are now accompanied by mourning and disappointment. added. Because we lost four thousand of our lives and old ones. What we did in our old normal. We cannot meet and hug our loved ones, we cannot spend time with our friends, we cannot go to work, school, bazaar or market. And we can't predict how long this will last. We long for even ordinary things. This situation can push us into a depressed or idle, angry or fragile psychology.
The second wave of the epidemic is about psychiatric diseases
The World Health Organization has this on mental health. draws attention to the new danger. Cases of sleep disorders, depression, anxiety, panic attacks and post-traumatic stress disorder are increasing. We are waiting for these to pass. If we just withdraw into ourselves and wait, like a child who mistakes a shadow for a ghost and closes his eyes to avoid being harmed, we will not be able to gain from what happened, nor will we be able to build a strong future. First of all, it is necessary to realize the situation we are experiencing and then the feeling that this situation arouses in us, and to attribute the correct meaning to what is happening.
If we know what we are exposed to, we have a healthy attitude towards it. We can develop m. For example; “I am intolerant now, because the limitation of not being able to go and see my mother causes me anger. But this is a temporary deprivation and we will eventually have better days. Then, we can exercise to increase self-control, patience, spiritual and emotional endurance with an approach such as "I can communicate with technology and be content with this, and direct the energy I use for anger to possible pursuits."
Repairing disappointment with new dreams
Sipping our coffee in a cute cafe, visiting our friends, being deprived of many things we enjoy; Not being able to celebrate holidays or have a holiday as usual creates both mourning for the past and disappointment for the future. Not being able to imagine these and not developing new emotions and memories with new experience brings mental clumsiness and hopelessness. For this reason, realizing the situation, nurturing the hope that we will experience these beauties again in the new normal, even if delayed, and dreaming attainable dreams will keep our spiritual spine upright.
Even though we do not have the opportunity to have a luxurious and full-fledged holiday, we can focus on our village, summer house or having simple and peaceful times under the current conditions. Planning to make jam instead of enjoying an open buffet breakfast and waiting for apricots and cherries to be available while learning jam recipes will feed our imagination equally. Isn't this what psychological creativity is? To reveal the tremendous talent of man. To overcome the seemingly impossible problem with new possibilities and options. That's why this process is an opportunity. It is an opportunity process in which we can develop our talents, our problem-solving skills, our emotional endurance, our motherhood, fatherhood, spousehood, our identities for which we are responsible, our identity, our servitude, in short, our humanity.
And accepting the new reality
We cannot predict what the boundaries and form of the new normal will be. Digital education, socializing on social media, attending international meetings from living rooms, shopping online... Of course, we will look for what is good and normal for us. Resisting change wastes energy. But a person is healthy as long as he can stretch. Adapting to the new by centering our values, that is, this huge We will learn to surf in big and fast change like the waves. While doing this, of course, not forgetting to be compassionate and understanding to ourselves and our loved ones. It would be useful to evaluate the process not as a trouble but as a school that grows and develops us.
Transforming the feeling of common destiny into a consciousness of unity
It is resistant to pain and difficulties and the best is very much. We are a society that is. We still act towards each other with the same sensitivity and sensitivity. While we experience the consequences of the selfish and live-for-yourself mentality pumped by the capital system, this process reinforces self-consciousness, compassion for others and the whole, thinking and unity. We can strengthen this to a universal awareness of responsibility. Thank God, our belief, culture and yeast are very prone to this.
Creating new routines, producing and hoping
Let's start again with small steps, like a child learning to walk. Let's re-realize our spiritual map, the reality we are going through, our limitations and what we can do, and move forward step by step. Let's have expectations from ourselves and others in line with our current possibilities. Let's be calm, patient but stable. Let's set new routines and rituals. Let's develop simple but enjoyable habits. Regular sleep, regular meals, plenty of exercise. Let's set up tea time, movie night, game and chat times as a family. Let's be sensitive to the private spaces and needs of everyone in the family. Let's hug, let's listen, let's understand. Let's continue to produce whatever we can. Creating and hoping causes the feeling that I am useful and deserve good shares from the future. Let's motivate and support ourselves.
Staying in action, moving and helping
Taking beneficial actions, both mentally and physically, prevents unnecessary and tiring thoughts and aimlessness, and enables us to acquire new habits. It makes you feel useful, provides a safe basis for the fluctuations of the process, and provides morale and motivation. It is best for us to help, to touch another life with our hands, if not with our hands, with our tongue, or if not with our tongue, with our good wishes.
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