New Leaf
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I am beginning to think more on the power of thought and how our thoughts direct us. I found an interesting video on how thought can influence not only our own lives, but that which surrounds us.
This has me thinking more of my two out there finding their purpose. Rather than awfullize and think fearfully of their future, I handed them over to God to watch over. It is too much for me.
In the meantime, I am trying really hard to put Viktor Frankls theory of "crabbing" to practice.
The great holocaust survivor and logotherapist Viktor Frankl spoke of a flying lesson where his instructor taught him a concept pilots called “Crabbing.”
His flying instructor had said – “If you are starting east wishing to land at a point somewhere west and you have a cross-wind, you will drift and land in a different spot. So, you need to “crab” or head in the direction opposite to that of the wind so you land in the spot that you actually want to land at.”
Frankl explained that he felt this held for people, too. If you take a person as he/she really is, the default negative “crosswinds” in our mind make him/her worse. If we overestimate people, however, we promote them to what they really can be.
So, his advice for us? “Be an idealist, because, then you will wind up as a realist. As Goethe said, if we take a man as he is, we make him worse. But, if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be.”
The first step I took was to change the description in my signature of my two, to something more positive.
I will try more and more each day, to think the best thoughts of them on their journey out there. If it makes me an idealist, so be it. It also frees me to carry a lighter load rather than mourning the loss of my two.
I will pray for their success in their search for finding purpose and meaning.
‘If you presuppose in a man – whoever it may be – that there must be a spark of a search for meaning, you will elicit it from him and let him become what he is capable of becoming.’ | Viktor E Frankl
If Frankl saw the power and possibility of this in his day and age, how much more so is this deemed possible in our modern times? We have only to type thoughts onto this keyboard where they are streamed through cyber space to reach the far corners of the world in a matter of seconds.
Gratefully,
leafy
This has me thinking more of my two out there finding their purpose. Rather than awfullize and think fearfully of their future, I handed them over to God to watch over. It is too much for me.
In the meantime, I am trying really hard to put Viktor Frankls theory of "crabbing" to practice.
The great holocaust survivor and logotherapist Viktor Frankl spoke of a flying lesson where his instructor taught him a concept pilots called “Crabbing.”
His flying instructor had said – “If you are starting east wishing to land at a point somewhere west and you have a cross-wind, you will drift and land in a different spot. So, you need to “crab” or head in the direction opposite to that of the wind so you land in the spot that you actually want to land at.”
Frankl explained that he felt this held for people, too. If you take a person as he/she really is, the default negative “crosswinds” in our mind make him/her worse. If we overestimate people, however, we promote them to what they really can be.
So, his advice for us? “Be an idealist, because, then you will wind up as a realist. As Goethe said, if we take a man as he is, we make him worse. But, if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be.”
The first step I took was to change the description in my signature of my two, to something more positive.
I will try more and more each day, to think the best thoughts of them on their journey out there. If it makes me an idealist, so be it. It also frees me to carry a lighter load rather than mourning the loss of my two.
I will pray for their success in their search for finding purpose and meaning.
‘If you presuppose in a man – whoever it may be – that there must be a spark of a search for meaning, you will elicit it from him and let him become what he is capable of becoming.’ | Viktor E Frankl
If Frankl saw the power and possibility of this in his day and age, how much more so is this deemed possible in our modern times? We have only to type thoughts onto this keyboard where they are streamed through cyber space to reach the far corners of the world in a matter of seconds.
Gratefully,
leafy
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