How To Make the Best Out of Forced Self-Isolation

It’s the perfect time to meet with your inner demons.

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While fear and suspense have recently become our reality, everything that is now happening in the world is amazing.

Because of the pandemic, for the first time in our lives, we can meet with our real emotional selves without escaping to work, friends, travel, or parties. And often, these suddenly emerging emotions are not pleasant at all.

But if you dare to go through, you will discover yourself and your true emotions.

I get it — it’s fucking scary.

You can finally put the phone off and meet with unspoken insults.

You can question your self-image or established relationships, and find out who you are, what you want.

So — if after a week alone with yourself, you’ll want to fill your holes with people, food, alcohol, and hard work — it’s perfectly understandable.

But you shouldn’t.

Now we have the perfect conditions to finally stop and take time for ourselves.

And this is not about compulsively working on those abs, but about hearing the voice of the person inside who continues to experience pain.

This time is about the realization that you are not always emotionally advanced, mindful, self-conscious, and loving.

Maybe you’re nervous and cruel. Maybe you’re not compassionate to your partner, lack acceptance for your parents, or generally insecure.

Now, without distractions, you’ll understand be able to see these parts of yourself, hear them, accept them.

Social isolation makes us meet with our real selves, and it may be the best meeting in your life.

However, to avoid feeling guilty, it is crucial to remember that you are not only your reactions (which you may be ashamed of).

You are a desire to understand where these reactions came from and why, and change that.

You are a desire to become a more attentive friend and a genuinely accepting (others and yourself) person.

You are a person who can admit mistakes and move on.

Free up space inside from old thoughts and connections so that something significant appears instead. It cannot wait any longer.

I wish everyone to have the strength and courage to use these troubling times to meet with yourself.

Save yourself — to save the world.