Logotherapy and Music

My violin is always with me. And it is very much connected to logotherapy, I understood it only when my dear soul sister Maria Marshall invited me to contribute to a book and she, as always, inspired me! <3 (The book is published in Sept 2020, you can order it Amazon. The article is later reprined in the textbook for Logotherapy students and practitioners in 2022, it can be ordered here).

I thought: 
Don’t forget what you have learnt in logotherapy and violin is actually telling you the same! 

This is how:

G string Gratitude and Meaningful Goals

D string Defiant Power of Human Spirit

A string Attitudinal Value and Change

E string Existence (“Here and Now”)

I thought why not taking all the notes/letters!

And look, there is a message with meaning in the way notes are named in the scale!

C

Conscience

The intuitive capacity of the human person to discover the meaning of a

situation

D

Defiant power of the human spirit

Ability of the human person to discovery meaning in the face of tragedy

E

Existential   – “here and now”

Frankl uses the term in reference to (1) existence itself, that is, the way of being that is uniquely human; (2) the meaning of existence; (3) the striving to find a concrete meaning in personal existence.

F

Freedom of the Will

Ability of the human person to choose “to take a stand on whatever conditions might confront them” Freedom of the will is opposed to determinism, but does not imply freedom from conditions in life. Freedom of the will is one of three axioms upon which logotherapy and existential analysis is based.

G

Gratitude and Meaningful Goals

A

Attitudinal value

One of the categorical values. The value by which one finds meaning through the stand one takes toward a situation, especially an unchangeable fate; that is, the choice of an attitude that allows the human person to rise above an unchangeable predicament and to grow beyond oneself.
B
Be

Just Be U-nique, as You are!

And I can summarize it like this (© Sladjana Milosevic 2020)

I would like to add that I thank dr Viktor Frankl every single day for the wisdom he shared (Man's Search for Meaning, a book about how he survived four concentration camps) as it helped me to understand and live life. 

Source: Lewis, M. H, LOGOTHERAPY AND EXISTENTIAL ANALYSIS: A GLOSSARY OF ENGLISH TERMS, Revised: August 2014

Photo (violin) from: https://www.gtdb.org/gdae/videos/-JY8UxCjZoY