The Life-changing Impact of Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy — 6. What Is your Real Problem? The Crisis of Meaning

1. 1. Every distress, whatever its nature, is in essence a disturbance of the sense and experience of meaning in life.
2. 2. Suffering, Frankl contended, makes us aware of what ought NOT to be.
3. 3. Human consciousness is intentionally directed; we are designed to seek connection with something other than ourselves.
4. 4. The will to meaning is the deepest motivation embedded in the human breast.
5. 5. There is a spiritual unconscious deeper than the psychological unconscious, which Frankl called the Unconscious God.
6. 6. Without a sense of meaning or meaningful connectedness, we can hardly breathe; despair of meaning drives people to suicide or deviant behavior.
7. 7. Healing occurs when clients breathe the spiritually fresh air of reconnection to meaning.
8. 8. Conscience is an awareness of the call to come back to what we were intended to be: worthy.
9. 9. The defiant power of the human spirit enables us to overcome even the most devastating suffering.