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Loneliness, loneliness and isolation, while they are related to each other, are different. Loneliness can be good for your well -being, but not if it is unwanted isolation.

As someone prone to anxiety and stress, I have actively sought loneliness in the form of meditation retreats in several places.

I thought they would train me to better take care of my mental health without depending on the external validation of any person.

My last retirement in Burma took place in the middle of a forest infested with creatures with huge snake snakes. I slept in a room that housed tropical size cockroaches that was not allowed to kill.

As you can probably imagine, when I left my loneliness 10 days later, I felt like Superwoman.

My will was much stronger than I had imagined. My trust grew from this experience, serving as a reminder that I can, and I will be fine alone.

While now I am quite comfortable in chosen solitude, I have a much more difficult time when loneliness is imposed by external circumstances, and that is the main difference when trying to understand loneliness in the face of loneliness and social isolation.

They are different from each other and sometimes they can be confused.

During the coronavirus block, for example, I worked in front of a computer all day. I had no interaction with anyone and was as insulating and lonely as those retreats were, if no more, for different reasons.

However, I was not the only one who felt just because of the lack of social interaction.

This forced loneliness was the shared experience of many who participated in the Covid-19 survey of the Lonelity roots project during the first months of the pandemic.

Before pandemic, 28.9% of those who lived alone reported that they fought with loneliness. However, after the pandemic began, 67.7% of those who lived alone felt something or much more lonely due to the loneliness imposed.

Echoing my own experience with involuntary loneliness during pandemic, almost 60% of respondents reported that what they lost most was being with friends and family who did not live with them.

A respondent said moving: “I like to be a hermit and isolate me a lot. Now that I don't have the freedom to see family and friends who care, isolation, you can feel that I am struggling to breathe. "

Whether you have felt only as a result of the loneliness imposed or chosen, it is far from being alone.

Let's explore how loneliness, loneliness and isolation are related to each other, and how can be faced with unwanted feelings of loneliness and loneliness.

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Natural law (Latin: ius nature, lex naturalis) is a system of law based on a nearby observation of human nature, and based on intrinsic values ​​to human nature that can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (laws you express promulgated from a State or society). According to the theory of natural law, all people have inherent rights, not by act of legislation but by "God, nature or reason." The theory of natural law can also refer to "theories of ethics, politics theories, civil law theories and theories of religious morality."

In the western tradition it was anticipated by pre-social, for example, in their search for principles that ruled the cosmos and human beings. The concept of natural law was documented in ancient Greek philosophy, including Aristotle, and Cicero was mentioned in the ancient Roman philosophy. The references to this are also found in the Old and New Testament of the Bible, and were then exposed in the Middle Ages by Christian philosophers such as Albert El Grande and Thomas Aquinas. The Salamanca School made notable contributions during the Renaissance.

Although the central ideas of natural law had been part of Christian thought since the Roman Empire, the basis for natural law as a consistent system were established by Aquino, since it synthesized ideas of their predecessors and condensed them in their "lex naturalis" (Illuminated. "The natural law"). St. Thomas argues that because human beings are right, and because reason is a spark of the divine (see image of God), all human lives are sacred and infinite compared to any created object, which means that All humans are fundamentally equal and granted with an intrinsic basic set of rights that no human can eliminate.

The theories of modern natural law took shape in the era of lighting, combining inspiration of Roman law, Christian school philosophy and contemporary concepts such as social contract theory. It was used to challenge the theory of divine law of the Kings, and became an alternative justification for the establishment of a social contract, positive law and government and, therefore, legal rights, in the form of classical republicanism. In the first decades of the 21st century, the concept of natural law is closely related to the concept of natural rights. In fact, many philosophers, jurists and academics use the natural law synonymous with natural rights (Latin: natural), or natural justice, although others distinguish between natural law and natural law.

Due to the intersection between natural law and natural rights, natural law has been claimed or attributed as a key component in the Abjuration Law (1581) of the Netherlands, the declaration of independence (1776) of the United States, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789) of France, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) of the United Nations, as well as the European Convention on Human Rights (1953) of the Council of Europe.