I like these following thoughts because I fundamentally believe that there are meaningful experiences in ALL of the Lifestream. We never quite know what or who we shall encounter in our life- journey when we choose to forget ourselves and encounter with God and others!
So...
Victor Frankl's therapy rests on three major assumptions:
Life always has meaning.
Life has meaning under all circumstances and at all times. There is something instinctive in the human being that leads us to want to preserve life, both for ourselves and also for those whose lives we see to be in danger. Who would not try to rescue the baby from the burning building, for instance? Logotherapy as Victor Frankl's calls his system of beliefs insists on the meaning of life as a reality.
The greatest desire of the human being is to find meaning.
Since they have been on this earth, human beings have grappied with fundamental questions such as '"Why am I here?', 'How should I live, given that ! must die?' and 'Is there something beyond just my own existence, an overall meaning to life itself?' Logotherapy does not provide answers. It recognises that each person must grapple with and find answers to these questions.
Human beings have freedom of choice. The human being always has the capacity to make a choice, to take a stand. We have the capacity to choose meaningful directions in our life and something within us will make us uncomfortable with choosing anything else in the longer term.
Although these three assumptions are true,a further thought is that the task facing the individual is that the therapist is not offering a template or blueprint or schema or wire frame for a meaningful life but to point each person to their own unique answer.
( The above essay is based initially on Victor Frankl's system of belief. Which was based on his survival during World War 2 in a Death camp.
His experience there is its basis.)
Thanks for reading this 📫. Comments are welcome.
( Agreed: Digital Anvil)
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