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Why We Call It Logomeditation
The name, the root it shares with logotherapy, and the gap the method was built to close.
This is why Logomeditation treats relationship as a training ground rather than an application. The name is from the Greek logos, meaning — the root of logotherapy. The method trains attention for the sake of perception, and it insists that the perception is not finally about you. Inner freedom exists so that you can respond; virtue exists so that the response is good; and meaning is most often found in the direction of another person, addressed to you by the fact that they are there and nobody else is going to answer.
We have built, at considerable expense and with real scientific care, a national curriculum in noticing. It has made people calmer. It has not made them clearer.
The gap between those two is where most of a life is actually decided, and we are currently sending people into it with no instruction at all.
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Julius Barreto-Lins, MD, MPH, PhD, is a physician and the creator of Logomeditation, a contemplative method grounded in Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy.
Knowing the name is the beginning. Carrying it is the vocation.
If the root of the word moved you, you may belong among those who teach it. We will send you the path a facilitator walks.