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We offer you the most complete and profound existential Logotherapy education available anywhere -- which can be integrated into each participant’s schedule at an affordable cost. Logotherapy (Spirit-Wellness) is the synthesis of existential psychology and
metaphysical philosophy that is pleasurable, powerful and permanent enough to sustain your life along lines of excellence in good times and bad
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Coping With Change - Mini-Quiz
How do you cope with Change? COPING WITH CHANGE Mini- Quiz
ezinearticles.com Why do we resist change? Most People live with the illusion that humans welcome change but the fact is we do not --unless it is to our immediate and obvious advantage. And even then it is difficult for most people to cope with a major shift although...
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LOGOTHERAPY = f(Personal Meaning x Communal Belonging)
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Existential meaning focuses our daily lifestyle choices. When embedded in ultimate meaning -- this working meaning can be expressed pragmatically. This is done by projecting the realities of faith, hope and love into society through our spiritual virtues and responsible choices and by following the promptings of a spiritually awakened conscience.
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International Network on Personal Meaning
The main objectives of the Meaningful Living Project is to provide helpful tool and support through the Meetup group, websites and Facebook to all those who are aspire to live a more meaningful live in spite of their past and present difficulties.
International Network on Personal Meaning
If you don't have kindness in your heart, in your words and in your actions, all your religious beliefs do not have much meaning.
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“Everyone has his/her own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his/her life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his/her specific opportunity to implement it.” - Dr. Viktor Frankl
I’ve studied Freud, Adler and Frankl and rejected most of Skinner’s simplistic stuff and accepted Dugal Arbuckle’s existential approach, but one concept keeps coming to me. I believe in nurture and nature or nature and nurture -- or perhap
s both! But after forty years of assessment and psychotherapy, I have found a consistent factor to explain sound mental health. Healthy and happy parents rear healthy and happy kids. And nutty and frustrated parents rear nutty and frustrated kids.
Well -- there are exceptions of course, but I modify that to include the sad fact that emotionally distressed parents usually rear psychologically inept kids, which causes them to make serious mistakes that bring suffering to themselves and to the next generation of children. Of course, remedying that -- breaking the chains of ignorance -- is what this course is all about. What you give to your kids is what you consistently receive in return, although you may go wrong by not be giving them what you thought you were offering them. I find great wisdom in something valuable Otto Rank wrote and I paraphrase:
I was resting on my bed, pondering why so many parents put so much pressure on their children, wondering why they cripple them with neuroses and psychoses and I finally reached a conclusion. They do it out of stupidity. They have no concept of sound mental health and so they rear children in haphazard ways that fail.
I find Otto Rank one of the greatest of all the mental health scholars, but I prefer the phrase, They do it out of ignorance, for while stupidity is a life-long genetic disability, ignorance may be only temporary and can be corrected. I suppose almost every teacher, professor and counselor agrees or why work with students who are doomed to repeat their parents’ blunders ad infinitum. Prof. Jard DeVille
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From the saintly Viktor Frankl
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Benefit: learn the personal tools to revitalize and fulfill your relationship.
* Consistent joyful s*xuality in your relationship.
Benefit: achieve s*xual intimacy without guilt or game playing to increase your joy.
* Predict your Personality Pattern and your partners.
Benefit: learn specific communication techniques to better influence your partner.
* Learn to manage your conflicts through the Three Stage Conflict Avoidance and Control ASRAC PROCESS.
Benefit: learning this alone could save your marriage or relationship.
* Create Couple's Contracts that really work for you and your partner.
Benefit: negotiate about money, s*x, discipline and everything else without conflict.
* Self-Focus Exercises in every Chapter.
Benefit: achieve personal empowerment and understanding.
* Learn many interesting things about yourself and your partner with our Personality Pattern Predictor.
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"How can anyone with the brain of a cockroach make such a
stupid statement?"
So rang out the scorn of a killer talk show host on a television station in Cleveland. When I was on tour in his city, John Kelly quoted Leo Derocher who said just the opposite -- "Nice guys finish last." Kelly also quoted from books like Winning Through Intimidation, Looking Out For Number ONE and possibly, Succeeding With A Swift Kick To the Groin. Read more: http://www.fulfillmentforum.com/NiceGuys.htm
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LOGOTHERAPY = f(Personal Meaning x Communal Belonging)
Psychospiritually maturing men and women need ways to love, labor and lead others, by building on the crucial choices that make life meaningful and significant in places blessed by human hearts where we share faith, hope and love.
The Fulfillment Forum - Living Wisdom: Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy Revisited - LOGOTHERAPY FOR FULFI
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THE LIBERATED SOUL - Cosmic Psychology of Committed Spirituality
How to Become a Truly Authentic Person; Develop Spiritual Maturity, Emotional Healing, and Physical Health
" My message of soul liberation is especially appropriate in this
era of incessant anxiety and often confusing challenges -- in this time of international terrorism, wars and threats of wars, existential frustration, a collapsing middle class and the present destruction of American democracy by political abusers.
CIVILIZATION'S DISCONTENTS
UNIT ONE -- THE CREATURE-SELF
Each human life is an uneasy joining of selfish mammalian traits from our primordial past and generous self-aware virtues through which our combative species lives reasonably well together. These dissimilar elements are often in conflict within the soul and generally in opposition to many cultural requirements. The reader will learn how we humans combine emotional and spiritual traits with more or less success.
UNIT TWO -- NARCISSISTIC FANTASIES
Each person automatically assumes himself or herself to be at center-stage of life's drama. We all see I - MYSELF-ALONE, as the key player to whom all others should defer, although while growing up with other narcissists, most persons learn to deny this selfishness. The reader will learn how our narcissistic yearnings for possessions, power, prestige and pleasure create enormous personal and social problems -- up to and including the devastating 20th century wars and cold wars.
UNIT THREE -- THE WORM IN THE APPLE
Each of us is given this marvelous gift of life - a big red apple for our pleasure. Unfortunately, the gift has a worm at the core -- the tragic quartet of guilt, rage suffering and especially death - and with the four, the death-dread that nags at each person, creating such pain that we repress it in order to find a bit of enjoyment from life. The reader will learn how our genetic death-dread, our unconscious fear of annihilation, complicates almost every human attitude, activity and relationship." Prof. Jard DeVille
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FRONTIERS OF FULFILLMENT - How To Live So Satisfying A Life You Shall Want It To Last Forever
The book's subtitle - How To Live So Satisfying A Life You Shall Want It To Last Forever, describes what it is all about.
PART ONE -- KALEIDOSCOPIC CHANGE
UNIT ONE -- COSMIC CONNECTIONS
Only by connecting our lives with the Cosmic Creator, God the Seminal Spirit, can we satisfy the deepest aspects of the human soul that Viktor Frankl calls our spiritual unconscious. The reader will learn that we the children of stardust must live through spiritual principles for life to become great.
UNIT TWO -- MOTIVATION TO CHANGE THE WORLD
We all need to mature through the physical, psychological and philosophical aspects of life - through the pleasure/pain, power/prestige and purpose/permanence principles of existence. The reader will learn several crucial factors in successful self-motivation.
UNIT THREE -- THE GREAT TRANSITION
In this age of unending change, when nothing remains as it was in the past, we are bedeviled by a cruel philosophy of nothingness, a belief in disbelief, nihilism that savages the human spirit. The reader will learn the importance of coping wisely with ever shifting circumstances.
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" If you consider a nice guy or gal a doormat, a wimp, a marshmallow -- I agree with you completely. Such a person doesn’t have a chance to succeed in a tough, competitive world in which many other persons are striving for the same things we want for ourselves. The tough-minded guys and gals will run over the wimps in a very short time. I, however don’t think of the doormats of the world as truly nice guys and gals. I see nice persons as competent and intelligent persons who understand the nature of influence, cooperation and persuasion power -- as those who;
MANAGE INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM
SHARE THE REWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT WITH THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HELP THEM SUCCEED
CREATE COMMUNITIES OF SATISFIED ACHIEVERS IN WHICH EVERY PERSON IS A RESPECTED MEMBER
And that, I said to the group, is my definition of a nice guy or gal, of an authentic, emotionally honest parent, teacher, manager, pastor, military officer or what have you!"
Prof. Jard DeVille
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LOVE LEVEL IDENTIFICATION QUIZ - From 'YOUR SEARCH FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE' Free Logotherapy Ebook
Do You Think NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST?
Our Attitudes - Except from 'Your Search For A Meaningful Life'
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While Logotherapy does indeed help neurotic and mentally ill sufferers -- it is intended primarily for normal, reasonably well adjusted persons who must cope with civilization’s many frustrating discontents that afflict multitudes of ordinary persons who compromise their search for a meaningful life in places where they could belong. A secular or materialistic lifestyle is crippled by too narcissistic values, attitudes and choices and by destabilizing changes that sweep over contemporary society faster than many ordinary persons can comfortably adapt.
Today, we are all American Sikhs - CNN.com
Our deepest sympathy goes out to the Sikh community in Wisconsin after this terrible tragedy. Our thoughts, prayers, and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who were killed and wounded. No community of 'persons' should be persecuted and terrified through such violence.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/06/opinion/kaur-sikhs/
cnn.com Valarie Kaur says Sikh Americans have been misunderstood and have struggled to live as free citizens. But today, the country has united in support.
We accept persons of all nationalities, creeds and races with a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in credit hours or with appropriate career shaping experience, because life cares neither where you learn nor how you gain wisdom. Society simply wants you to perform wisely and well -- while we have the knowledge to bring a major love, labor and leadership advantage into your life and career.
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How Emotional Attitudes Effect Your Parenting
The attitudes we hold play a crucial part in the way children think of themselves and others, as well as what they plan on achieving in life.
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ezinearticles.com Each parent should understand the importance of the attitudes youngsters hold. A psychological attitude is much like a general assumption we hold about life and our place in the broad scheme of life.
Nothing But the Blood?
Great article from Sojourners - We are offered competing narratives in which our economic salvation depends on stimulating growth, namely increased buying power, and shifting the burden of blame for any failures of this economic model to the individual who hasn’t learned enough self-control. In terms of unregulated consumption fueled by unending desire, individual self-control is a fiction that ignores the larger systems of consumption that drive a planet toward ruin and the majority of the population into poverty.
sojo.net What vampires can teach us about consumer capitalism and human desire.