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New Beginnings

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Let’s infuse the world with more hope, vision, and love.

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Faruk Ateş
Sep 25, 2024
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I haven’t been doing much Airbending in recent times, and that’s a pity. Airbending, for those unfamiliar, is the art and practice of Believing in Possibility in everything you do. It’s infusing hope and optimism into hardships (without going overboard), and painting a picture of a brighter future. It’s constantly looking for different solutions, alternative options, and ways to create something new that hasn’t been done (or believed in) before. It’s about not giving up, no matter what.

Cultivating a sense of hope is not just a good practice to feel better; it’s also a way of stimulating the creative centers of your brain, and keeping your soul connected to your inner life force. Without a feeling of optimism that a better and brighter tomorrow is possible, we might lose our sense of hope, and fall pray to anguish, despair, or worse. And when we suffer those, our desire for something better grows but so does our apathy, making it harder for us to actually do things, even things that wo…

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