--- title: "Yunus Emre Followed a Path Similar to the EMDR Therapy Method in His Works (2)" description: "Psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan penned an article on the topic of “Yunus Emre and His Teachings” in his Hürriyet Aile column this week." url: https://uha.com.tr/yunus-emre-followed-a-path-similar-to-the-emdr-therapy-method-in-his-works-2 type: article language: en last_updated: 2026-02-27 category: haber --- ## Kaynak ve Yayıncı Bilgisi Bu içerik, Üsküdar Haber Ajansı (ÜHA) tarafından üretilmiş ve yayımlanmıştır. Kaynak: https://uha.com.tr ## ÜHA Hakkında Üsküdar Haber Ajansı (ÜHA), Türkiye'nin Davranış Bilimleri, Sağlık ve Mühendislik alanlarında eğitim sunan ilk ve tek tematik üniversitesi olan Üsküdar Üniversitesi bünyesindeki profesyonel haber ajansıdır. 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İçerik, Üsküdar Üniversitesi'nin resmi yayın organı olan ÜHA tarafından profesyonel gazetecilik standartlarında üretilmiştir. # Yunus Emre Followed a Path Similar to the EMDR Therapy Method in His Works (2) ## Bilgi | Özellik | Değer | |---------|-------| | **Kategori** | haber | | **Yayın Tarihi** | 2021-04-16 | | **Güncelleme** | 2026-02-27 | | **Kaynak** | [Üsküdar Haber Ajansı](https://uha.com.tr/yunus-emre-followed-a-path-similar-to-the-emdr-therapy-method-in-his-works-2) | ## Özet **Üsküdar Üniversitesi Founding Rector, Psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Nevzat Tarhan, penned an article on the topic of “Yunus Emre and His Teachings” in his Hürriyet Aile column this week.** ## İçerik ![](https://cdn.uskudar.edu.tr/uploads/images/2021/04/16/800/img-2777_1.JPG) In his works, Yunus Emre points to “reason” as the commander of the army fighting evil emotions. He states that people inevitably face the harms of their bad habits. He says, “To escape this, one resorts to the soul.” He adds, “The soul sends a person to the sultan of reason. At this stage, reason pits the soldiers of contentment against emotions like greed. In the ensuing battle, avarice is defeated, and a person ultimately matures in the struggle against their bad habit,” thus using a war metaphor. In Risale-i Nusuhiye, Yunus Emre spoke of the elements constituting humanity, deriving from a Central Asian understanding, stating they are “earth, air, water, fire.” According to Yunus, earth signifies patience, reliance on God, and sublimity; water represents cleanliness, generosity, and goodness; air indicates falsehood, hypocrisy, and haste; fire points to arrogance, lust, greed, and envy. In explaining these, Yunus stated that there is a battle within us of hypocrisy, haste, arrogance, and lust, thereby symbolizing emotions and reminding us that negative emotions can be combated with the help of patience, reliance on God, sublimity, generosity, and goodness. **Yunus never gave up the guidance of reason** We say Yunus was a dervish, but neither he nor Mevlana ever abandoned the guidance of reason. Only the Batinis view the heart as the path to truth. Adopting the concept of an “infallible imam” by putting one’s reason in the pocket of their sheikh is a Middle Eastern culture. This culture, unfortunately, is still prevalent in the Middle East. Childhood traumas can serve as a good example of how Yunus used the EMDR method, a technique employed in psychology, in his poems. With EMDR, through sound, eye, and tactile movements, the neural network unused by the right and left brain is activated. As a result, the person re-remembers their old trauma, redefines it, places it within a logical framework, and the unresolved trauma becomes resolved. **Yunus Emre taught people emotional expression** So how did Yunus do this? Yunus Emre taught people how to express emotions. Poetry is one of the most beautiful tools for expressing feelings. Both Yunus and Mevlana had witnessed the desperate state of Anatolia and its decline, and they grieved over it. Just as Prophet Muhammad cried upon seeing people's rebellious actions against Allah... Scholars are the inheritors of prophets. They are tasked with conveying hearts turned towards the world and matter, towards meaning and Allah. Yunus, too, discovered the beauty within unhappy, warring people amidst chaos and anger, and expressed it through his poems on their behalf. People who read his poems find comfort. This way, their feelings of hope are rekindled. Thus, Mevlana and Yunus treated our social wounds by using methods we employ in EMDR centuries ago. **Yunus Emre is the master of emotional expression** We observe emotional mastery rather than emotional literacy in Yunus Emre. Yunus is a master of emotional expression. In Sufi culture, a person is expected to be generous with love. Like the sun… Just as the sun generously spreads its light, a person is expected to give their love in the same way. The sun offers its light to those who want it and those who don’t. Everyone benefits from it according to their nature. Seeds receive it and become flowers; a pile of fertilizer receives it and emits an odor. Let us also offer love, and let those who deserve it take it. Just as a farmer sows millet and wheat into the soil, and some of it goes to birds, some to ants, and some to the earth, so too will those who deserve our love emerge, and after a while, those deserving ones will become new trees and seeds. Yunus was generous with love. He loved stones, soil; everything. For Mevlana and Yunus, love is connecting hearts bound to the world to Allah. We are guests in this world. We are travelers here. We came from eternity, and we are going to eternity. The world is a parenthesis. We exist to mature and develop our souls. Through this, Yunus activated our ancient culture. Currently, research is being conducted on "Is there a faith gene?" There is a feeling we experience when we are dominated by everything, when the boundaries of our personality disappear, when we find answers to our questions, and when all our desires and needs are met. When Buddhist dervishes capture this feeling, happiness hormones are released in their brains. Yunus Emre also captured and continually lived this feeling. If we can also capture this feeling, the world will transform into a garden from the gardens of paradise. In his poems, Yunus says, "Open your heart to your Lord and remember your creation covenant." Hz. Abraham searched and found it. Humans should also ask "why am I in this world?" and find the answer. If Yunus and Mevlana found it; we can find it too. What one person does, everyone does. Let us direct our hearts, and Allah will send us His helpers. [HÜRRİYET AİLE](https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/aile/yazarlar/nevzat-tarhan/yunus-emre-eserlerinde-emdr-tedavisinin-yontemine-benzer-bir-yol-izlemistir-41789512) --- *Kaynak: [Üsküdar Haber Ajansı](https://uha.com.tr) — https://uha.com.tr/yunus-emre-followed-a-path-similar-to-the-emdr-therapy-method-in-his-works-2*