Awareness

I’ve been thinking about longing lately... Where does our longing for a person, a place, or a situation come from? What does it tell us? To begin with, I wanted to understand longing as an emotion a little better… I had spent a great deal of time researching emotions for my master’s thesis, titled The Connection Between the Intergenerational Transmission of Emotion Dysregulation and Interpersonal Communication Styles. What is an emotion? How does it arise? What does it lead t

Productivity, Slowness, and the Balance of Self-Compassion Lately, I’ve been feeling a little slower than usual. There are many reasons for that. Summer has its own gentle rhythm—the warmth in the air, quieter streets, fewer sessions and workshops as people head off on holiday. On top of all that, I’ve also been dealing with some health challenges. Together, they have naturally led me into a slower pace of life. From the outside, that probably sounds pleasant. Someone might s

On emotions, belonging, and discovering who you are "Despair, weariness, emptiness, and nothingness… Once they take hold of you, they are difficult emotions to escape. It feels as if you have fallen into a well without water and are sitting there with your face buried in your knees. You feel as though you are the most meaningless being in the world, as if you are the only person going through difficult times." Are you familiar with these feelings as well? Have you ever sunk s

Perception, the Nervous System, and Our Everyday Experiences "What we focus our attention on tends to grow." In recent weeks, this sentence has been appearing in different contexts and sources around me. I encounter it while studying how the nervous system works in my course notes. I hear it as a line in a film. I recently became curious about quantum physics, and it appears there as well. While working on my master’s thesis—where I explore the physiological, psychological, a

Do words have exact equivalents in every language? When we translate from one language to another, do they truly carry the same meaning? And if each person carries a language of their own—an inner language—does a word that sounds the same from the outside really mean the same thing to everyone? I don’t think there is a clear answer to that. What is happiness, really? A state, a feeling… And what about pain or anger? While working on emotional dysregulation during my master’