{"id":4977,"date":"2021-11-22T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foteinos.wpoink.com\/%ce%b6%cf%89%ce%ae-%ce%ad%ce%bd%ce%b1-%ce%bc%ce%b5%ce%b3%ce%ac%ce%bb%ce%bf-%cf%83%cf%87%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%b5%ce%af%ce%bf\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T23:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T23:19:16","slug":"life-a-great-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foteinos-therapeutis.com\/en\/life-a-great-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Life: A Great School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everyone has heard that life is a big school. We say this expression often in our daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how many of us understand it deep in its essence? I personally had the idea that we are coming to be healed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for treatment we go to the hospital, not to school. So what is life, a hospital or a school?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this life, we humans can have any problem imaginable. Some issues we come with and others manifest along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear of death, abandonment, loss, fear that people will not love us, beliefs that we are not worthy, that the world is bad, low self-esteem and self-confidence, pain, anger, sadness, mourning, shock, deep trauma of all kinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I break my leg, I will go to the hospital, they will put my bone in its place, I will put it in a cast and in about a month I will probably be fine. Healed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my experience, the same is not true for the fear of loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no pill. There is no plaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is a long learning process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am learning how to look at this issue from a different perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A common attitude is that of the victim, in which I am helpless, things happen to me and I suffer. Where does this road lead? In a place of empowerment, peace and happiness or in further weakness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another attitude is where I take responsibility for my life, my choices, I regard things as they are and from now on I see what I can do to change them, if I do not like the present situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This view is not easier or harder, better or worse. It’s just different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mesogeion Avenue is no better than Vouliagmeni Avenue. It’s just a different road and leads to different places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same goes for our choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same thing happens with our attitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are like heroes of a video game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until now I thought we were passing levels and the game ends when we are healed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We probably pass a level when we have learned the lesson it has to give us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you remember from school the process of learning a lesson? How many times did it take to repeat until a deep understanding came? Until you can go and write excellently in the exam? Until you can explain it simply to others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Einstein used to say that you really know something when you can explain it in a very simple way to someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe when we get to know our issues on such a level, they will not be painful, they will not determine our lives as when they operate in the unconscious. Maybe then, we see ourselves with compassion and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, this process is not a sprint, it is a marathon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In practice, our core issues remain with us. We change and the way we manage them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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