8th: The meaning of the pursuit of life

8th: The meaning of the pursuit of life

The author of the Quest for life is a psychiatrist who comes out of a concentration camp, with the energy of a concentration camp, creating a sense of treatment (legotherapy), which is less retrospective and less introspective, and its focus is on the future, In the work and meaning that the patient is going to accomplish in the future. People who know how to live, almost "any" pain can endure.

The book is divided into 2 parts, the first part tells the author's story in the concentration camp. The second part briefly introduces the meaning treatment method.

The prisoners in the camps lost all freedom, but there was still a freedom: freedom to take personal attitudes in the established circumstances.

When the war was about to end, some prisoners made the choice, but waiting for them was still dead. We find out how unreliable people are, especially in matters of life and death.

A busy and active life, the purpose of which is to give people the opportunity to understand the value of creative work; a leisurely and retiring life gives you the opportunity to experience beauty, art, or nature as an accomplishment. As for the lack of creative, but not leisurely life, but also has its purpose: it gives people the opportunity to enhance their personality, and in the context of the external constraints of the situation to choose their life attitude. Although the prisoner of concentration camp is not a leisurely life and creative life, but the meaning of the world is not just creativity and leisure. If life is really meaningful, pain should have its meaning. Pain, just like fate and death, is a part of life that cannot be obliterated. Without pain and death, man's life cannot be complete.

A difficult external environment can often give people a chance to transcend themselves and thus gain spiritual growth.

To the future-their own-the loss of confidence of the captive, must be difficult to escape the doom. With the loss of faith, the spirit of defense is also lost; Since then, nature is willing to sink, a body and mind increasingly decay.

The mood (including the courage and hope) of the Good Yu (yǔ), and the body's immune ability is closely related. People who know this truth will naturally know that people who suddenly lose hope and courage are likely to die as a result.

What really matters is not what we hope for in life, but what our life expects of us. We should not continue to ask what is the meaning of life, and should be aware of their own every moment of acceptance of the inquiry of life. In the face of this inquiry, we cannot answer by speaking and contemplation, and should be answered with correct actions and acts. In the end, we will find that the ultimate meaning of life is to explore the correct answers to the problems of life, to complete the mission of life constantly arranged for everyone.

In Nazi concentration camps, we can see for ourselves that those who know that there is a task waiting for him to accomplish are the easiest to live.

What people really need most is not to be nervous (perhaps to be idle), but to struggle for a worthy goal.

The continuous progress of automated machines has allowed the average person to increase their leisure time, but it is pitiful that many of them do not know what to do with these newly acquired free time.

We are not asking what the general meaning of life is, but asking what the special meaning of life is in a moment of one's existence. One cannot seek the meaning of abstract life, and each has his own special vocation or mission, and this mission needs to be fulfilled concretely. His life cannot be repeated, nor can it be replaced. So each person is unique, and only his special opportunity to complete his unique talent mission.

Meaning Therapeutics believes that "can be responsible" (responsibleness) is the most important essence of human existence. Man is a kind of responsible species, he must realize his latent meaning of life.

Self-Transcendence self-transcendence? Self-actualization self-realization?

When a person encounters an unavoidable and inescapable situation, when he has to face an immutable fate--such as cancer that is incurable or ineffective by surgery--he is given a last chance to attain the highest value and deepest meaning, the meaning of misery.

A pessimist is like a person who finds that the calendar that rips a page every day is getting thinner. The person who actively solves the problem of life is like a person who rips a page of a calendar, notes some logs on the back and then archives them sequentially. He was proud and delighted to recall the abundance of life from those notes, tasting all the years that he had lived fully. Even if he notices that he is getting old, what does it matter?

Desire is the father of thought (the wish is father to the thought), afraid of the mother of the accident (the fear is mother of the event.), don't worry about things you can't control.

The contradictory orientation method to treat insomnia. Don't try to sleep, but try to stay awake. In other words, the "excessive willingness" to fall asleep causes the anticipation of anxiety, making him more unable to sleep, while applying the contradiction-oriented approach to his way of falling asleep quickly.

8th: The meaning of the pursuit of life