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Why Were You Born?
Logotherapy, fundamentally, is based upon the idea of an essential human core based on experiences, psychological factors and actions leading to a meaning in an individual’s life.
For logotherapists, each and every person, has a body, a mind, and a spirit. Individuals are unique and particular. Mental well-being can be accessed through tools provided by the science of logotherapy.
The idea that we need to wait for life to show us our purpose is not very accurate. Our why in life resides within us. Experiences, thoughts, belief…They constitute the basis of our purposeful existentialism.
Neurosis reflects upon the idea that we, as human beings, can develop feelings of anxiety and emptiness due to the absence of meaning. It is often referred to as “ Existential Frustration”.
Viktor Frankl developed the idea of internal eagerness and devotion towards meaning. It summarizes the previously discussed argument, that we are created to create. Self-absorption of critical issues and dissemination of mental effort, fixated on problematic life issues, would often lead us to existential frustration.
