Clients ask therapists the same questions over and over…. What should I do? Do you think it’s my fault? Why did this happen to me? Meaning-centered therapists never answer these questions. They help you peel away layers of cognitive and emotional distortions so you can use a spiritual viewpoint to see value in your problems.
Sometimes life drops a random bomb 
through little or no fault of your own. Your get downsized at work. You lose your retirement savings to a funky market. Your spouse betrays you. Your teenager dies in an auto accident. Nothing makes sense. A massive wall of emptiness and despair envelops you like an existential cloud. You suffer almost too much to bear.
The meaning-centered therapist reminds you that the only way to change your suffering into personal growth is to tap into the defiant power of your human spirit. You reach deep inside and find the meaning of your life moving forward, no matter what has happened.
Suffering without meaning is neurotic, but meaning motivates you to rise above circumstances by choice. Meaning alchemizes depression and inertia into creative movement. As horrific as some experiences are, they are windows to a new attitude that says you are not a victim to anyone or anything. You can learn how to use your willpower to find meaning in any situation when you work with a meaning-centered therapist.
Ten Benefits of Meaning-Centered Therapy
1. Discover what’s uniquely positive about you.You can learn how to use your willpower to find meaning in any situation when you work with a meaning-centered therapist.Michael Hoffman, Sober Buddha Counseling
Unleash aspects of your personality, talents, skills, education and willpower that have been buried in the shadow side of your psyche for a long time.
2. Activate the defiant human spirit deep inside.
Use creative intelligence and coping skills unique to human beings to summon up incredible levels of courage.
3. Transcend your pity party.
REM sang “Everybody Hurts“…. and you can move past the limitations of your personal fears by studying how other people have faced their own darkness.
4. Demand better quality of life.
Once you learn to stop being a victim and become an agent for upward psychological, emotional and spiritual growth, you never settle for less.
5. Discover your capacity for choice.
OMG! You realize how self-limiting your old belief system was and you choose more creative, assertive and effective ways to problem-solve.
6. Find meaning in the seemingly meaningless.
Just on the other side of helplessness is the brain chemistry of will-to-meaning that creates new neuronal pathways of energy and optimism.
7. Become more compassionate.
Your critical mind shuts down and your heart opens. You realize that all people suffer one way or another, and you become a helper/giver.
8. Suffering alchemizes into personal achievement.
The realization comes that seeds of positive action are actually lying right there in the soil of your depression. Knowing this, you reverse negative thinking and action into improving your real-time life circumstances.
9. Aha!!!… the spiritual core of your being.
You suddenly realize that absolutely nobody can help you, but you. In this lonely place, your spirit is the only resource left, and you allow it change how you manage life’s challenges.
10. Personal dignity.
Calamities and lesser insults to your self-image status no longer ruffle your feathers. You humbly take positive actions no matter what; you do not whine, complain and blame.
Meaning-centered therapy is derived from the original Logotherapy and Existential Analysis theory and psychotherapy practice of Dr. Viktor Frankl. Read his famous book, Man’s Search for Meaning, which describes how he discovered the defiant power of the human spirit while imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.
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