“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” — May Sarton We as humans are curious creatures. We explore, invent, discover and compose. But when it comes to knowing ourselves we are unfortunately lagging. There are different expressions you might have come across in your readings …
We all have a purpose in life or at least a sense of it. We have somewhere to go, something to do and someone to be. We stride along with striking checkpoints off our bucket list. It is ironic that humans feign to be the powerful masters of their mortality. Keeping the day busy and …
By Suhasini Garg Since the beginning of time, humans have been posed with a variety of death-posing problems- hunger, wild animals, diseases, natural disasters, etc. But through our intelligence, our will to survive, coupled with a slow but strong boost from evolution, we overcame it all. We cooked food to avoid starvation, built homes to …
Life is funny. Sometimes people show up in your life and end up fitting like a missing piece of a puzzle. However, often you find yourselves having to live without these puzzle pieces and wonder if your life will ever form one complete picture. Sometimes when I sit under the clear moonlit sky with just …
When to know it is time to leave your job for good. Quitting has always been understood as a synonym for failure. Why would you want to be a quitter? If you have started doing something, then better have the guts to finish the job. If you leave, then you are a failure because successful …
Procrastination conceptually refers to putting off things to do later. Procrastination is achieved when: The delayed task is of more importance than its substituted task. The substituted task is more pleasurable than the designated task. The rewards of the substituted task are immediate. Procrastination provides bliss, if only, for a short period. I, being a …
Viktor Frankl states human beings are made up of mind, body, and spirit. And we are our spirit. This notion is similar to many religious beliefs. And in all honesty, this is a notion I believed in before I became a mental health worker. Logotherapy is a school of psychotherapy that is meaning-centered. The three …
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The ultimate aim for our existence is to find the purpose of our birth. Suffering is one of the ways to reach to this epiphany. Humans possess the tendency to logically evaluate events in their life. If people feel their suffering has meaning, they are able to endure and thrive despite tragedy (Frankl, 1963, 1984, …
You may not be familiar with the term “logo-therapy” as it is still not as prevalent as other schools of psychotherapy, especially in India’s landscape of mental health. Logotherapy, given by Viktor Emil Frankl, is a school of psychotherapy that literally means therapy through meaning. By his practice and personal experience, Frankl had successfully transformed his …
