When i started reading this book i had no idea that i was going to encounter something so stunning. Although the book is not very long (like 100 pages) its content contain very deep meanings and makes you think about life, time, mercy, hope, freedom and evilness on every single page.

About the Book

Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurologist">neurologist</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatrist">psychiatrist</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher">philosopher</a>, writer, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_survivors">Holocaust survivor</a>. He was the founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotherapy">logotherapy</a>, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force.

About the Author

In 1942, just nine months after his marriage, Frankl and his family were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. His father died there of starvation and pneumonia. In 1944, Frankl and the surviving members of his family were transported to Auschwitz, where his mother and brother were murdered in the gas chambers. His wife died later of typhus in Bergen-Belsen. Frankl spent three years in four concentration camps.

The author tells about his own experiences in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp">Nazi concentration camps</a> over the years in from a psychotherapist's and a human being's point of view in this book. The author explains what this book contains with these words;

Content

"This book does not claim to be an account of facts and events but of personal experiences, experiences which millions of prisoners have suffered time and again. It is the inside story of a concentration camp, told by one of its survivors. This tale is not concerned with the great horrors, which have already been described often enough (though less often believed), but with the multitude of small torments. In other words, it will try to answer this question: How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?"

The author loses everything that he has when they bring him to the camp. Soldiers separate him from his wife, brother, sister and parents. For a long time, he didn't even know if they were alive or not. Soldiers confiscated the scientific works he had been working on all his life and destroyed them.After losing everything including his purpose of life, how can a man continue to live without losing hope?

Meaning & Purpose

"While we were waiting for the shower, our nakedness was brought home to us: we really had nothing now except our bare bodies—even minus hair; all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence"

Walking for hours on icy roads with torn shoes, being flogging while working all day long on extreme conditions, eating a bowl of soup and a piece of bread and witnessing people die one by one every day. In these conditions can a man still have mercy for another prisoner and help him or does he do everything to survive?

Mercy

There were men in camp called 'Capos'. They were privileged people chosen inside of the prisoners. They were people that never hungry, never worked. Although they were chosen from prisoners often they were harder on the prisoners than were the guards, and beat them more cruelly than the SS men did.Someone who has been oppressed for a long time was becoming more ruthless than those who had oppressed themselves when power had taken over.

Evilness

After suffering for a very long time, most people begin a state of indifference towards everything. For these people, life loses its meaning and purpose. There are two things that people who fall into this situation do in the camps; either waiting for death by doing nothing or committing suicide by running to electrical wires.

Indifference

"The prisoner who had lost faith in the future his future was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and became subject to mental and physical decay. Usually it began with the prisoner refusing one morning to get dressed and wash or to go out on the parade grounds. No entreaties, no blows, no threats had any effect. He just lay there, hardly moving. He simply gave up. There he remained, lying in his own excreta, and nothing bothered him anymore."

After Viktor Frankl lived for a long time in different camps, he is not giving up but he kinda accepts his destiny. He accepts his fate by saying that he refuses to do so to an officer who offers to stay here by deleting his name from a list where he will probably be taken to be killed on the pretext of being transferred to a better place. But they do take him to a better place, and it turns out that after he left the camp, the whole camp burned down and all of his friends died.

Destiny

"And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate."

"The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life."

"...we could say that most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners"

"When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden. "

This book shows that even if in extreme situations there is always hope and something to fight for.

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D., was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy.His book Man's Search for Meaning (first published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism. Originally published in 1946 as Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living. He was one of the key figures in existential therapy.

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Man's Search For Meaning

Atoms are the basic units of matter. Everything in the universe apart from energy is made of matter therefore atoms make up everything in the universe, according to Northwestern University. The term "atom" comes from the Greek word for indivisible, because it was once thought that atoms were the smallest things in the universe and could not be divided. We now know that atoms are made up of three particles known as subatomic particles: protons, neutrons and electrons — which are composed of even smaller particles, such as quarks.

What's The Atom? 

Atomic structure refers to the structure of an atom comprising a nucleus (centre) in which the protons (positively charged) and neutrons (neutral) are present. The negatively charged particles called electrons revolve around the centre of the nucleus.

Structure of atom:

Atoms are the building blocks of matter and were created after the Big Bang. They are the smallest unit of an element that still retains its properties.

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Springer Nature supports the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the researchers and practitioners in policy and business tirelessly working towards them. For Mental Health Month we spoke to Dr Jack Tsai, the Editor-in-Chief of npj Mental Health Research.

I would describe my work as focused on innovative models of collaborative care targeting the needs of adults with serious mental health and housing needs. Most of this work has focused on homeless populations and ways to engage and provide behavioral health, primary care, and social services to them.

Please tell us about the nature of your work.

Not everybody is interested or capable of receiving traditional office-based mental health care for a variety of reasons. So the challenge I am seeking to undertake is to reach, engage, and serve those who need other ways to receive mental health care. This can be through new person-based approaches like through peer specialists, through non-traditional settings like legal aid offices, or new modalities like tele-health or virtual care.

Does your work intend to directly address ways in which we can improve mental health care services or access to care? 

My short-term goal is to develop interventions that are novel, different, and exciting to me and recipients. As one of my mentors often liked to say, most interventions do not work. But even if the interventions don’t end up working, it’s the adventure of science and research to develop new things and test them.Long-term goal, it may sound strange, is to understand how and when people can be weaned off interventions. Many interventions, whether they are medications, therapies, or social services, are offered with an indefinite time period.

What are the short and long-term goals of your work?

Like many people, policymakers are busy people so providing short concise ways to communicate to them (briefs, infographics, video clips) are important. In your communications, it should be clear what your ASK is and how it may benefit others. So far, my role in policy activities has been to educate, describe empirical evidence, and outline pros and cons of different approaches. By being impartial, one remains a trusted source of data and information.

What do you think is the most productive way that researchers can engage policy makers? 

Since I work in public health, public engagement is an essential component of the work of me and my colleagues. In other fields, public engagement often occurs at the end of the project when the findings are ready to be disseminated to the public.

What does public engagement look like in your field and how important is it?

However, in public health, public engagement can occur during the development of a project to obtain community buy-in, it can occur mid-way into the project to help troubleshoot some issues, and it occurs at the end of the project during the dissemination stage. Engaging the public and communities in which you are working in helps keep projects grounded, relevant, and invested in by the community. Engaging the public also allows you to receive constructive comments and keeps your work honest.

Public Engagement

I would like to see more concerted efforts to combine pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Many prescribers know little about psychological therapy and many therapists know little about medications. I’m fortunate to have been trained as a clinical psychologist to provide therapy but I also have a master’s degree in clinical psychopharmacology, so I understand the value of medications.

What progress would you like to see next towards the improvement of mental health care, worldwide and locally?

Many conditions are best served by some combination of medication and therapy, and there are also many opportunities for both of these to also be combined with complementary and alternative medicine approaches as well.How can progress in science & research contribute to the improvement of mental health care access and support the fight against stigma?Technological advances have already contributed greatly to improving access to mental health care and reducing stigma. For example, online resources and social media has destigmatized the many ways that people can and should seek help.

Science & Research

I expect new technologies will continue to improve things in this respect. However, I think it’s also important to be careful about unintended consequences. In efforts to reduce stigma, we don’t want to trivialize mental illness, over-pathologize natural human reactions, or dismiss human propensity for resilience. Of course, it’s a delicate balance that progress in science and research can help tread.  Discover Springer Nature's SDG3 Hub about Good Health and Well-Being.

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About the author: Jack Tsai, PhD MSCP serves as Campus Dean and Professor of Public Health at UTHealth, and Research Director for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Homeless Programs Office. He is a clinical psychologist and previously served as a professor and directed the Division of Mental Health Services Research at Yale School of Medicine for a decade. Dr. Tsai currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for npj Mental Health Research.

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It’s natural; when things go wrong, one of the first thoughts is likely to be “Why me?”“Why me?” is a weakening phrase. It only serves to increase our feeling of victimhood and makes us feel incapable of dealing with the situation.By “What next?” we not only gain back a feeling of control, but also figure out what we can actually do.

1. Replace “Why me?” with “What next?”

It is hard to feel grateful when you are dealt a blow, no matter how big or small it is.No matter what you are dealing with, there is always, always something to be grateful for. Force yourself to say it out loud a few times. Your heart and your mind will soon catch up.

2. Force yourself to practice gratitude.

When you’re hurt, it is equally natural to look for someone to blame.But blame only serves to prolong the hurt. It makes it harder to let things go. It makes us angry and corrodes us from the inside. It brings negativity into our life.So just stop blaming.

3. Quit blaming.

This is a tough one. It’s so much easier to just give in and surrender to the fear and grief. But we need to stand tall, even when we feel two feet too short.

4. Don’t give in to fear and despair.

No matter where you’re at or what you’re going through, don’t give up. Try just one more thing; maybe it’s just the thing that will resolve it for you.

5. Never give up.

We all face something in our day to day routine, sometimes we aren't able to deal with it ....

Every single one of us goes through times when it seems like life sucks. It’s just the way it is. It’s what we do in those moments that matters.

5 Helpful Things to Do When You Think Life Sucks

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<a href="https://moleskinestudio.com/actions/">Actions by Moleskin Studio</a> is a sophisticated app for getting things done. It is a feature-rich task manager made to help you get your work done effectively. It’s built around three sections – Logbook, Schedule, and Lists – that organize your tasks without overloading you with filters, groups, projects and labels.Actions is available <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1227402276?pt=542023&ct=mdshome&mt=8">on iOS</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moleskine.actions.release">Android</a> and <a href="https://actions.moleskinestudio.com/">web</a> with a <a href="https://moleskinestudio.com/support/membership/basics/purchasing-a-subscription/">one week free trial</a>. <a href="https://www.moleskine.com/en-us/app_actions.html">Price: $2/month, $12/year</a>

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Stay focused, automate what you can, and let your phone handle the hard stuff.

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<ul><li>At a fundamental level, we apprehend reality through our senses, filtering the world through our abilities to see, hear, smell, feel, and taste.</li><li>Everything our senses apprehend is alchemized by our minds into information and experiences we can understand.</li></ul>

Reality is a simulation

<ul><li>Our mind-made reality isn't just made up of all the data that gets filtered by our senses. It's also constructed from all the ideas and impressions that we filter through a complex matrix of beliefs.</li><li>This matrix helps us to organize and understand the world we live in, and shapes our understanding of the past, present, and future.</li></ul>

We exist in a matrix of human-made mental models

<ul><li>Metareality is pure awareness beyond the bounds and limitations of everyday perception.</li><li>It is reality without limits or constraints—a wellspring of infinite possibilities.</li><li>To access it, strip your consciousness of all mind-made models that inhibit it, and you are left with pure awareness—awareness produces all reality, and when reality is freed from illusion and artifice, only awareness remains.</li></ul>

Beyond our perceived reality, there is pure metareality

<ul><li>Anyone can tune into the universe’s infinite possibilities.</li><li>The Sudden Genius Principle proves it. Sudden genius can occur when the patterns and intricacies of the universe spontaneously open up to someone.</li><li>Some of us are born savants with exceptional mental abilities; others acquire savant abilities.</li></ul>

We all have the potential to become metahuman

<ul><li>You don't need to be on the brink of death to have an experience that transcends the physical bounds of your body.</li><li>There's simply no doubt that our consciousness isn't confined to our bodies; it exists beyond physical limits because consciousness itself is limitless and infinite.</li><li>We reach the infinite possibilities of metareality, therefore, by activating the infinite potential of our consciousness.</li></ul>

Consciousness exists beyond the limits of the physical body

<ul><li>The first step on your journey is to ground your body and mind in the present, letting constructs of the past and future fall away. To achieve this, practicing mindfulness.</li><li>Tune into your perceived reality at the very source of perception: the five senses.</li><li>Relax into the present moment, and open yourself up to the flow of things happening around you.</li><li>Observe these experiences, and as you relax into them, allow your observations to grow deeper and richer</li></ul>

The journey to metareality begins with cultivating the mind-body connection

<ul><li>At its source, the true self is infinite, immaterial, and ever-changing.</li><li>Yet, as we exist in the world, we accrue fixed characteristics that limit our potential. As a result, we deny our true, infinite potential. Reverting these processes of reification is necessary.</li></ul>

Learn to strip away mental conditioning, and you will meet your true self

<ul><li>The source of creativity lies in metareality, which is accessible to all of us.</li><li>Profound creativity occurs when an individual perceives that which lies beyond the conventions of everyday reality.</li><li>It is tempting to believe that creativity exists on two planes—the mental and the physical—but they are all one.</li><li>A painting isn't separate from the desire to paint or the understanding of how to paint, it's all aspects of the same creative intelligence.</li></ul>

Activate your creative potential through consciousness

<ul><li>The key message in these ideas are that our day-to-day reality is inauthentic, compromised by limiting mental and social frameworks that humans have imposed upon it.</li><li>Our true reality is metareality, which exists outside of all of the many interpretations that we human beings add to it.</li><li>By shedding the constrictions of mind-made reality and activating the infinite potential of our own consciousness, we are able to access our own infinite, metahuman potential.</li></ul>

Final summary

What if you could move beyond your current reality to experience a higher form of awareness, one that brought you into contact with your own infinite potential as a creative, emotional, intelligent being? The fact is, you can. There is something more to life, and it's accessible to each of us if we can learn to tap into it.

The New York Times-bestselling author unlocks the secrets to moving beyond one's present limitations to access infinite possibilities by becoming metahuman, liberating oneself from old conditioning and the mental constructs that underlie anxiety and ego-driven demands.

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Is it possible to venture beyond daily living and experience heightened states of awareness? Deepak Chopra says that higher consciousness is available here and now. “Metahuman helps us harvest peak experiences so we can see our truth and mold the universe’s chaos into a form that brings light to the world.”—Dr. Mehmet Oz, attending physician, New York–Presbyterian, Columbia University  New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. How does one do this? By becoming metahuman. To be metahuman, however, isn’t science fiction and is certainly not about being a superhero. To be metahuman means to move past the limitation constructed by the mind and enter a new state of awareness where we have deliberate and concrete access to peak experiences that can transform people’s lives from the inside out. Humans do this naturally—to a point. For centuries the great artists, scientists, writers, and many so-called ordinary people have gone beyond the everyday physical world. But if we could channel these often bewildering experiences, what would happen? Chopra argues we would wake up to experiences that would blow open your body, mind, and soul. Metahuman invites the reader to walk the path here and now. Waking up, we learn, isn’t just about mindfulness or meditation. Waking up, to become metahuman, is to expand our consciousness in all that we think, say, and do.  By going beyond, we liberate ourselves from old conditioning and all the mental constructs that underlie anxiety, tension, and ego-driven demands. Waking up allows life to make sense as never before. To make this as practical as possible, Chopra ends the book with a 31-day guide to becoming metahuman. Once you wake up, he writes, life becomes transformed, because pure consciousness—which is the field of all possibilities—dawns in your life. Only then does your infinite potential become your personal reality.

Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Metahuman

A new <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760.2022.2053877?journalCode=rpos20">study</a> published in the Journal of Positive Psychology explores how feeling and showing gratitude can make people feel less used and objectified.

Introduction

“Objectification causes severe consequences, ranging from interpersonal indifference, reduced empathy and helping, aggression and bullying l, to even killing and genocide, therefore, it is important to find interventions to alleviate objectification.”

According to Wang, objectification refers to treating others as mere things or tools that can help in one’s goal achievement while denying others’ autonomy, needs, and feelings.

Researchers opinion

“Employees can be treated as mere instruments to aid the financial success of their employers, students can be treated by their classmates as note-takers, and women can be perceived and treated solely as an object of sexual desire without regard for their personality or dignity”

Combining classical definitions of objectification, Wang suggests that objectification is marked by seven key features:1. Instrumentality : When someone treats a target as a tool for his or her own purpose2. Fungibility : When someone treats a target as interchangeable with other objects3. Violability : When someone treats a target as lacking in boundary integrity

Seven Key Features - Part 1

4. Ownership: When someone treats a target as though the target can be owned5. Denial of autonomy: When someone treats a target as lacking in autonomy or self-determination6. Inertness: When someone treats a target as lacking in agency or activity7. Denial of subjectivity: When someone treats a target as someone whose experiences and feelings need not be taken into account

Seven Key Features - Part 2

Over a series of three studies that included writing gratitude letters and imagining the effects of gratitude in an environment prone to behaviors of objectification, Wang’s research concluded that gratitude, both as a feeling and as a gesture, lowered the levels of objectification in a given environment.

Research

“The effect of gratitude on weakening objectification can be due to its ability to reduce people's focus on their own needs. That is, when people become less concerned with their own wants and desires, they are less likely to see others as instruments to fulfill those needs and are less likely to fail to consider others’ personhood.”

For people who wish to cultivate gratitude in their daily lives, Wang proposes three simple tips: <ul><li>Reflection : Spend a few minutes every day thinking about the wonderful things in life (such as a movie, books, a TV show we enjoy, or even being able to bask in the sunshine). </li><li>Exposing ourselves to nature : Spend time in nature by traveling to a place where you can enjoy a magnificent environment. </li><li>Showing Appreciation : Writing a thank you note or verbally appreciating or thanking someone. </li> </ul>

Three tips

“Expressing gratitude doesn’t need to cost you anything financially. So just do it.”

Wang, Xijing (Interview). <a href="https://therapytips.org/interviews/how-gratitude-helps-us-feel-whole">How gratitude helps us feel whole.</a> Therapytips.org, April 28th, 2022

References

New research from Dr Xijing Wang from City University of Hong Kong

Expressing gratitude may be the most effective way to combat objectification.

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7 Aspects of Feeling Objectified and How to Overcome Them

“You could leave life right now,”

<ol><li>If I were on my deathbed, would I have regrets?</li><li>Was I a decent person today?</li><li>Did I challenge myself today?</li><li>Did I have any fun today?</li><li>What am I grateful for today?</li></ol>

The Questions I Ask Myself Nightly:

Asking myself these things helps me live a more fulfilling life—the kind of life that I want to live. And I’m proud of what I’m doing here, right now. I think—at least I hope—my dad would be too.

Reason Of It?

it's about your choices after your loved ones...

Since my father died nine years ago, I've reflected a lot on my mortality, and I've asked myself these questions every night since.

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5 Questions I Ask Myself Nightly Since My Father’s Sudden Death - Tiny Buddha

One guiding principle for UX or Product Design is to make it simple.Users like simple it decreases the cognitive load and helps you create better experiences that do not confuse users.

Make It Simple

There is already so much pain in the world, do not try and add to it with your designs.Make sure your designs better the world. For instance stay away from Dark Patterns or things that hurt your users.

Do not Hurt anyone

Before you start designing, always figure out the problem first. That is critical and crucial in making excellent designs.every person should do some user research before designing to make sure you actually understand the problem at hand.

Figure out the problem

Everyone has a different background. They have different mental models and representations of how the world is. Understanding you are not your users will help you create better designs that stand out and make a difference.

Understand you are not your User

I have talked with a lot of high-quality designers, and empathy is something that has always come up.Having Empathy is critical in UX Design. Many designers have already proven that fact. If you have empathy as a UX Designer, you will be able to accomplish various things.

Have Emapthy

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