#viktor frankl
If you’re dealing with trauma, and even stress, your brain does not have the capacity for this space - the space to choose. Fortunately, though, it can be developed through focused attention, and it is a skill that my students learn and practice, so it is available even in challenging situations.
It is amazing AND inspirational that Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl had the space.
(Body intelligence with Imogen Ragone)
[* Note * Well, it turns out it is unlikely that Frankl actually said or wrote these words. More likely the quote comes from Stephen Covey, though there are other possibilities. For anyone interested in the real origin The Frankl Instutite have a page which detail this::
https://www.univie.ac.at/logotherapy/quote_stimulus.html and there is more information here https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/02/18/response/.
- From @dailystoic (Instagram).
“In camp, too, a man might draw the attention of a comrade working next to him to a nice view of the setting sun shining through the tall trees of the Bavarian woods, as in the famous watercolor by Dürer, the same woods in which we had built an enormous, hidden munitions plant.”
- Viktor Frankl describing how Auschwitz made the prisoners feel “carried away by nature’s beauty, which we had missed for so long.”
Pond in the Wood by Albrecht Dürer, 1496
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¿No recuerda esto el viejo cuento Muerte en Teherán? Un persa rico y poderoso paseaba un día por el jardín con uno de sus criados. Este estaba compungido porque acababa de ver a la muerte, que lo había amenazado. El criado suplica a su amo que le preste un caballo veloz para huir a Teherán, adonde podía llegar esa misma noche. El amo accede y el sirviente se aleja al galope. Al regresar a casa, el amo se encuentra con la muerte y le pregunta:
—¿Por qué has asustado y amenazado tanto a mi criado?
—No lo he amenazado. Me ha sorprendido verlo aquí, cuando tengo que encontrarme esta noche con él en Teherán —respondió la muerte.
Nota Cuento de Viktor Frankl leído en su libro El hombre en busca de sentido (1946), en las páginas 86 y 87 de la edición de la editorial Herder (2015).
El psicólogo austriaco Viktor Frankl en Nueva York, EEUU, alrededor de 1968
FotodeImagno/Getty Images.
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