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Maintaining balance in a seemingly unbalanced world

"Hey David, it's summer still ease up on the the topic matter man...why so heavy"? I can totally relate to what you're saying about my choice of topics. It is kind of deep considering it's summer time still. I know , I know, you're thinking..."Hey we're busy getting the kids back to school and labour day is upon us and you want to soak up every last moment of the summer break "...Yet, technically this time of year signifies the ending of summer...and it's a good time, time to contemplate the meaning of life, don't you think? Some personal development workshops you attend suggest life is meaningless and empty.

That isn't a bad thing ok...I mean life is what you make it and that is what is behind the idea that life is meaningless and empty. Viktor Frankl while interned in sub-human conditions in a Nazi concentration camp...found meaning through meditating. He would overcome these horrendous and barbaric conditions by holding a mental image of him speaking to a group of International Psychiatrists at a special dinner event.

Sure enough that mental image that Viktor Frankl meditated on came true. This isn't to say he didn't endure the hardships that Jews and others of different ethnic backgrounds went through as well, but what kept Viktor Frankl going was his dream, his goal, his vision. What's yours? What is the vision you want to see realized in your life as we move into the fall season and back into action after taking it easier during the summer months? You see Viktor Frankl is a master of meaning. After he was released from the Nazi Concentration Camp he went onto study Psychiatry at the University of Vienna and developed the concept of logotherapy. The following list of tenets represents Frankl's basic beliefs regarding the philosophy of Logotherapy:

Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones. · Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life. · We have freedom to find meaning in what we do, and what we experience, or at least in the stand we take when faced with a situation of unchangeable suffering. A short introduction to this system is given in Frankl's most famous book, "Man's Search for Meaning", in which he outlines another important conclusion of logotherapy, Frankl states in his book:


"If a prisoner felt that he could no longer endure the realities of camp life, he found a way out in his mental life - an invaluable opportunity to dwell in the spiritual domain, the one that the SS were unable to destroy. Spiritual life strengthened the prisoner, helped him adapt, and thereby improved his chances of survival."

Man in Search of Meaning, p. 123



These theories helped him to survive his Holocaust experience and how that experience further developed and reinforced his theories. The human spirit is referred to in several of the assumptions of Logotherapy, but it should be noted that the use of the term spirit is not "spiritual" or "religious." In Frankl's view, the spirit is the will of the human being. The emphasis, therefore, is on the search for meaning, not the search for God or any other supernatural being. Frankl also noted the barriers to humanity's quest for meaning in life.

He warns against "...affluence, hedonism, [and] materialism..." in the search for meaning.

What's your will wanting? What's so deep inside you that you really want to realize it, something so deeply profound and life fulfilling that it inspires you into massive action? What's holding you back is maybe a better question to ask don't you think? Who can you call on to hold you accountable to realizing this one big goal you have inside you?

You see Viktor Frankl isn't the only one talking about meaning. Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King all lived with such strong conviction and purpose that nothing else mattered. Martin Luther King was a brilliant orator and his landmark speech entitled "I have a dream" shaped and molded a Black community that at the time were still treated horribly almost still as slaves in the United States. Martin Luther King was a man of peace and and non violence, so much so that in 1964 he became the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

As a British-educated lawyer, Gandhi first employed his ideas of peaceful civil disobedience in the Indian community's struggle for civil rights in South Africa. Upon his return to India, he organized poor farmers and labourers to protest against oppressive taxation and widespread discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for the alleviation of poverty, for the liberation of women, for brotherhood amongst differing religions and ethnicities, for an end to untouchability and caste discrimination, and for the economic self-sufficiency of the nation, but above all for Swaraj - the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in the disobedience of the salt tax on the 400 kilometer (248 miles) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and in an open call for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years on numerous occasions in both South Africa and India. Simplicity, truth, non-violence, leading without fear of what might happen to him. That was Gandhi's purpose, passion and meaning.

I challenge you to look inwards this fall and really commit to leading a life you were meant to lead. I don't know about you but all summer I have been feeling this edge come about me. I am wanting change, truth, meaning in my life and a connectedness with what's real.If you want to connect to what's real, I go back to things I value. It may sound silly but here goes...but my values focus mostly on peace and freedom. I value, peace, good conversation, freedom, family, good friends, the joy that attending an outdoor jazz concert brings, a day at the baseball game, abundance, financial freedom, balance in life, god (in whatever way that shows up for you), community and success on your terms. What's your value list about? What meaning do you want your life to have?

What is your legacy going to be about this fall?