How to find the meaning of your life with logotherapy

"Man's Search for Meaning" is the title of the most important work of the neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. It is an autobiographical book in which he recounts his experience in the Nazi death camps. It is a very hard and heartbreaking book, and at the same time encouraging and full of hope.

The author tells how he was able to survive thanks to the fact that he found a meaning in his existence. And from that early experience (he was just a child), he later created the Logotherapy, psychotherapy based on the search for the meaning of human existence.

I often hear in consultation: "my life has no meaning", "I do not understand why we are here", "I feel empty" or "I feel alone". Sometimes, these and other similar statements reflect deep existential doubts that have accompanied the human being forever. The significance of our actions, the meaning of our life, the fear of death ...

These thoughts can be very present. And they accompany feelings of emptiness, helplessness and hopelessness towards the future.

Logotherapy, considered a humanistic-existential psychotherapy, focuses the therapeutic process of change from three axes:

The 3 axes of logotherapy

• Freedom of will: each person is free to make his own decisions and to direct his life where he wishes. We all have these resources, although sometimes we do not believe it..

• The will to make sense: the human being has its own characteristics that make it unique, and we do not depend only on the outside, on what happens to us.

• The meaning of life: man always tries to find a meaning for his life, it is a condition of the human being that is never lost.

Based on these basic ideas, a psychotherapy is developed focused on helping the person to find what it is that gives meaning to their life, to identify your fears and fears and how to avoid them, to overcome the tendency to reflect too much and worry about everything.

Do we know what is the meaning of our life?

For some, what gives meaning to their lives may be watching their children grow up. For others, researching the cancer cure. Some will find inner peace through the care of the other, or their work.

There is no one way. There is no universal purpose. Every human being is unique and authentic, it looks like no other. Your life, your circumstances, and your relationships are too.

Know each other to understand each other. Understand each other to improve. Improve to feel more full and balanced.

We spend huge amounts of time and money caring for ourselves on the outside, accumulating goods and possessions, traveling, going out and enjoying ourselves. And yet sometimes none of that makes us feel whole.

Sometimes nothing is enough. Why?

Maybe we still haven't found the meaning of our life.