What is Existential-Humanistic Therapy?

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I feel deep gratitude for the human transmission of wisdom down through the ages as it guides me now toward the fullest human journey possible. Intentionality is at the core as is the will to carry out what actually matters about life in the face of obstacles. To exist in communion with the miraculousness of being consciously aware entails responsive participation with the expressions life itself calls forth in experience with expansive breadth of choices for how to exist in the face of sublime nature and ultimately destruction. Deep reservoirs of human genius are alive and well in the existential outlooks garnered in philosophical literary works which have nourished and restored the tireless seeker in me for being informed on the ways to a well lived full life. Courageousness is needed to face up to and respond actively to the mutually contingent evocative world that we have been simultaneously given and contribute to its making.

Self-reflective conscious awareness writing combined with open-heart communion about matters most pressing about what it means to be alive evokes renewal of vision for a life imbibing story. One told deeply through mythology as ancestral heritage within a natural world that is made more available through poetical understanding of the transcendent from attunement to the drama of a musically penetrating play of searching souls for creative imagination of what life is now and becomes anew. Truthfulness as an exercise calls forth into awareness the relationally dependent presentations of the existential situation one is in, for example, being separated & connected to each other and everything whatsoever.

Can I meet and be met with benevolent eyes beyond egoism for the one who is watching, seeing, and waiting infinitely to be set free even within a world of terror? I shall make every attempt to stay focused on thou art for aesthetic revelations for existing simultaneously in an interdependent and independent world. Through careful attunement and responsiveness to constructive and destructive forces as givens to being alive I can become experientially free as an anxiously responsible human being aware of my presence in creation.

But how did I get here in the first place to be ask and answer questions such as these? To invoke present moment awareness and participation in being present with thou as much as is possible to while describing the experience and meanings made along the way is a philosophical endeavor. Any question asked is in part an answer in that in order to know what being and becoming an E-H psychotherapist is it must be experienced first, and this life choice made is not only upon a preexistent given path laid by teachers, it is also being made by us involved. My hardships have brought me here inasmuch as my searching for transcendence of unwanted moments that at the time felt never ending.

E-H orientating is about facing the crises of living in the world to which all humans are heir. There will be not shortage ahead either but this is not to make joy verboten, rather it is actually the contrary. I seek to penetratingly know what my part is in the whole play of life, to become one with destiny, and act my life out as I go along becoming more aware of what there is inside me and us from perspectives of aesthetics, relationality, and clarity for how I actually am in reality being in truth. In the ‘Courage to Create’ May shows a human capacity for the daemonic and creative forces of power through an intentionality of wishing and willing values inherent with life which are at stake an as entire existence is being founded, and is in part what can be seen informing cultural norms both adaptive and maladaptive—as in automaton conformity, an existential variety of neurotic anxiety in the time of postmodernity, or in the herd animal of Nietzsche, and transhumanism in Schneider.

I still am learning what my part is in the whole play of life, specifically as a son, intimate partner, neighbor, human animal, and an existential therapist which makes viable economic survival and creative application of the arts, science, psychology, and philosophy. I am confronted by sameness in being born into a preexisting community within an increasingly global awareness of interconnections across innumerable cultures, minds, lived experiences, and differences in personal expression which is at once is wonderfully profound, humbling, as it is disorienting and terrifically terrifying.

I aspire to be emotionally available for working through to understand paradoxes in sameness and difference of human development. I trust there is a greater capacity for harmonic human resonance through shared difference, indeed, this attitude is needed considering a long history of conflict with the ruling classes of power to take over free minded bodies and their land through viciously restricting natural resources for survival driving competiveness leading to genocide and war. I face these stark realities as an attempt to serve anyone willing to transcended this human hellscape (thank heavens there are many!), and will be interdependent on my own growth and deepening capacities for being a more loving-understanding force in the world which E-H psychotherapy imbues.

Every choice I make not to contribute to further destruction of our biological and sociological world matters. (IS THIS SENTENCE COMPLETE?). [JD2] I am learning how to meet the world anew with virgin eyes, an open heart, and a wiser mind and body willing to see and feel how best to respond with care toward every phenomena encountered within and outside me.

This entails active forestall of the sprits of hubris and narcissus in calcified attitude of “might is right” with the exception when life dangerously is threatened to intervene is permissible, not always clear when, but the body of existentialism holds keys for wiser discerning. I hope to be self-aware enough to choose diplomatic safety when possible, or at least a solid boundary not to participate in conflict beyond what is absolutely necessary to create gestalts of well-being. I have much to learn and grow into for facing together more fully the capricious world. Beneath my limited perceptions deep liberating truths avail to be explored which are uniting and undividing.

 [JD1]hope the additional words assists with the meanings

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