Existential Psychotherapy: Quotes and ABCs

 Existential Psychotherapy: Quotes and ABCs

QUOTES

• People have two basic concerns: One is to survive; one is to exist. The former only asks to go on living; the latter asks for meaning. The former concerns itself with how to live, the latter with why to live, the meaning of living. ~ Xuefu Wang, 2019, The Symbol of the Iron House: From Survivalism to Existentialism. In Existential Psychology East-West (Vol. 2), p. 7.
• “Our old way of thinking–that problems are to be gotten rid of as soon as possible–overlooks the most important thing of all: that problems are a normal way of thinking,....a normal aspect of living and are basic to human creativity. This is true whether one is constructing things or reconstructing oneself. Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.” ~ Rollo May, Freedom & Destiny, p. 20
• The 'Future' beckons Jeeva (living being) through free-will...It affords every individual an opportunity to chart his future, through the vehicle of righteous action and enlightened discrimination, collectively called evolution ~Raj Bhagavathi,  2018, Spirituality: A road map, p.. 19

ABCs of Existential Psychotherapy

A: Application of existential and humanistic life philosophies as a positive and forward looking approach to enhance mental health and wellbeing of human being

B: Balancing the behaviour and mental wellness aspects by self-improvements with self-on-self actions by assuming yourself as a blend of inner self and conditioned outerself by minimizing the dependence on external world or materialism to work on self-actualization (fostering and nurturing) the inner potentials through deep practice

C: Centring techniques of deepening self-awareness, attentiveness, self-reflection, relaxation, deconditioning, self-learning, self-actualization and self-realisation to be deep practised to correct the lopsidedness created by imposed materialistic world 

Toward educational therapy

The way education is being imparted in the most school through factory, corporate, banking  and competitive screening models of education, baring a few students who would do well despite the teachers and school condition, most students and their parents are under duress, it causing bad mental health problems and faith in ourselves and the immense possibilities to transcend our conditioning by outer materialistic world and develop our inner resources now being called spiritual intelligence to strike a balance between the outer and inner worlds. There is a scope for transdisciplinary work between education science and existential philosophy to develop as use 'educational therapy' that produces the joy of learning.