Viktor E. Frankl: Why To Believe in Others

Posted By a starsoul on May 31, 2010

What can you learn in 4 minutes 21 seconds?

I remember crying many times while reading Viktor E. Frankl’s book “Man’s Search for Meaning”. Today I found this rare video of Frankl on Youtube, filmed during his 1973 lecture to the Toronto Youth Corps. I love how Frankl is able to use 4:21 to explain why believing in other people is the greatest gift we can give. And this indeed should be the motto for any psychotherapeutic activity, “If we take man as he is we’ll make him worse. But if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be”.

Here’s a story of my overestimating man and promoting man to what he really can be:

This morning, during my contemplation, I got an equation: Truth = What I want it to be. This is how I got it: What is is what is manifested in our physical world therefore can be perceived by our senses. They are “appearance”. If we live a life based on our five senses, which is what most people do, we might get the same results or worse. Life can’t be changed for better until we shift our attention to the “truth”, in the world of energy (Don’t forget Einstein’s equation, E=MC2, energy IS matter), that simply means “what I want it to be”.

I then was excited and felt empowered by this newly found truth. Now all we need to do is to constently hold the picture of “what I want it to be” tight, in Frankl’s words, to overestimate the situation and promote it, then we get all those we want.

I started to do the experiment: Instead of complaining about some behaviors of my 18 year old nephew, who’s living and studying in Canada with me, I decided to see his sweetness and kindness that I’d like to see in him and felt the love towards him. Today, after school he went to grocery store and bought some apples and made a pie! Can you believe it? It blew me away. He makes very good apple pies but before I had to make my order and promise things and give him extra money… Today, he volunteered! Out of nowhere!

Or, out of the overestimation I felt towards him?

Well, in fact, it’s not just how to see a person, this empowering way of seeing, is how you see everything. – “When you change the way you look at things… the things you look at change.”

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a starsoul

Kemila Zsange, Clinical Counselling-Hypnotherapist, enjoys life, adventure, beauty, sharing, in and out of trance. Included in her future plans are hypnosis, travel, and hypnosis. She has a passion for helping others get the most of life. Click here to contact her or book a session now.

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