Helping your loved ones become what they are capable of becoming by Viktor Frankl

An unorthodox view of humankind.

Victor Emil Frankl (1905 – 1997), Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, devoted his life to studying, understanding and promoting “meaning.”

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” Viktor Frankl

So often we work to reduce stress in our lives and the lives of our loved ones. Frankl disagrees, at least in part, with this idea. He preposes that there is such a thing as good stress. Some in the psychology field call this "optimal levels of frustration". Frankl says when we allow ourselves and our loved ones to engage in the stress of responsibility and even in the inevitable suffering of life we allow space for meaning. We must believe (as has been proven through generations of research) that all of us strive for meaning in our lives and that meaning is attainable.

There is lots of information on Viktor Frankl on the web so if you find this message inspiring I encourage you to continue learning from him.