{"id":675,"date":"2022-12-10T19:12:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T16:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/yasam-carki\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T22:17:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T19:17:40","slug":"the-wheel-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/the-wheel-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wheel of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wheel of Life<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The wheel of life qualifies as a meditation symbol in Buddhism. In other words, it means seeing the endless cycle of life and the ways of salvation before Buddha’s enlightenment. When we say to “Pass through the circle of fortune”, do we not actually take a similar approach? \ud83d\ude42<\/h3>\n

The Wheel of Life is a simple yet powerful tool for visualizing all areas of your life at once to see where you most need improvement. Let’s start!<\/p>\n

How are you? <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

I want you to answer this question upon thinking for a moment.<\/p>\n

We try to fulfill our responsibilities during the rush of life. We all have a role taken on. Mother, father, manager, worker, artist; buyer, seller, saver, spender, organizer, destroyer\u2026We are usually taken up with things requiring to be fulfilled. Buying a new pair of gloves, cooking a nice meal for the evening, or drinking a coffee with a friend brings happiness to life for some of us while a new car, a new position, a new record, or a healthy breath is more significant for others.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, failures pull people under while sometimes, you still feel an emptiness somewhere despite all your achievements. We may be weary of running to our goals or struggling with illnesses. We may realize that we postpone all the good feelings most of the time. We set such goals for ourselves that we cannot realize that we lose our motivation and become weak during the time we spend to reach them. Some of the frames of mind of ours that we imprint may condemn us to unnecessary stress without us noticing it.<\/p>\n

We usually take care of others, not ourselves. We forget to assess ourselves, our state of mind, or our health, and to STOP for a minute and check on ourselves. Sometimes all we have to do is to STOP. Breath and observe HOW we are.<\/p>\n

Now, please find the toy below through which you can assess how you are.<\/p>\n

The Wheel of Life<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Focus on each area on the wheel separately and ask yourselves the following questions about the area you focus on:<\/p>\n

\u201cHow satisfied am I with this area of my life? How many points do I give my satisfaction level from 1-10?\u201d The center of the wheel starts at 0, the outermost line is 10 points.<\/p>\n

After scoring all the areas, try to feel how would it feel to travel on such a wheel. Is the road bumpy or is there a problem with the wheel? Is it too slow or too fast? Maybe it is quite comfortable.<\/p>\n

Was there something catching your eye, something you noticed during the scoring?<\/p>\n

What did I rate high? Which one of them did fail or must be improved? This is like a semester report card, right?<\/p>\n

What do I do for the areas I want to improve or change? Do I have goals?<\/p>\n

Asking yourself a question, even if you can’t answer it right now, is a subconscious task, and even when you don’t think about the answer to this question, the system continues to run in the background, and the answer is somehow in front of you. This is because your focus is now on finding that answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wheel of Life The wheel of life qualifies as a meditation symbol in Buddhism. In other words, it means seeing the endless cycle of life and the ways of salvation before Buddha’s enlightenment. When we say to “Pass through the circle of fortune”, do we not actually take a similar approach? \ud83d\ude42 The Wheel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-development-en"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozgekorkut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}