Introducing the word “soul” in any Psychology article poses a danger: it can cause its content to not be taken seriously.
But let us not forget that the same word “Psychology” means “Talking about the soul” or “The meaning of the soul”, if we force the meaning of the word “logos” a little.
However, interestingly, everyone knows what is meant. when we talk about “emptiness in the soul” or “soul pain”
In fact, it is a recurring expression in consultation when some people say that “I don’t want to die, but I want it to stop hurting inside.” Unfortunately, the topic we are going to deal with today is not personal, but social.
The problem is that we have forgotten things that our ancestors knew very well, things that they had been learning over the centuries.
Did you know Life needs a meaning, a reason, a “why” Today, as Victor Frankl warned decades ago, we face a crisis of meaning, in which people find that their lives are empty. They need something that satisfies their sense of the transcendent, something that makes them feel like more than just consumers of the products that society offers us.
In fact, consultation work is often listen to what is said and what is not said If we listen carefully and offer small guidelines, in the end the same person finds the meaning of everything that has been experienced, the reason for our experiences in life and the direction in which our life naturally heads.
It’s all about silence, about making space for our client’s life to come first.
Eclipsed needs
Our ancestors knew that life requires more than just objects to consume: it requires direction.
And they are also needed meaningful relationships And enjoy the moments of well-being that life offers us.
We also need heroes, who are nothing more than people in whom we can see ourselves reflected. People like us, but with great moral fiber, with willingness to do what they must do without giving up in the face of obstacles Deep down we know that television celebrities and footballers are not enough. We need moments of peace, ideally spent in nature.
We need quality time in which we can think about our things and organize what life has been messing up over the years.
Respect, understood in Adler’s style, is also very important: we all feel the deep desire for someone to listen to us without judging us, who does not want to change us or make us be in a different way than what we already are. Someone who knows us and is delighted to meet us.
The search for meaning
And we long for the feeling that we are in this world for something. That our life has meaning. Maybe it has it or maybe we have to create it, but the truth is that we need it.
It is not enough to complain and say that society is empty: people feel empty, but they are not. In fact, They are full of talents and abilities, desires and desires, vitality and hope
Often it only takes a look inside us to see all this.
A good first step would be to start recovering the knowledge of our ancestors. I invite everyone who is reading this article to (re)discover the works of James Hillman, a free soul who touched on topics that today are politically incorrect, but that provide profound wisdom.
Because a good path, paraphrasing Gandalf in the “Lord of the Rings”, is the one you start to walk and you don’t know where it will take you.
A look into the future
They say that in the near future, the great epidemics that our society is going to suffer are Stress, Loneliness and Depression
But all of them have a lot to do with what we have already mentioned: the emptiness of the soul. Because when a person feels empty and thinks that nothing makes sense, he experiences one of the most terrible and ancient pains of humanity.
Maybe it’s time to rethink the issue of the meaning of life of the transcendence of life beyond limiting beliefs.
It is, neither more nor less, than filling our days with life.
