The Freedom Of Attitude

My dear husband is a kvetcher. He claims it as a birth rite. At least he has an excuse.

I’m not a kvetcher, but I can get my shirt in a knot over things that haven’t even happened, and probably never will. I worry. Worrying puts me in a particularly negative frame of mind, so that I go into a situation expecting the worst.

Viktor Frankl spoke often of a basic freedom we humans have, which he called the last of the human freedoms: our attitude.

I’m not saying our attitude needs to be the opposite of whining and complaining, or worrying over future possibilities – sometimes complaining (maybe not whining) and worrying are appropriate. Even so, expecting the best and planning for the worst has helped me clean up my attitude.

Happily, worry is no longer a daily occurrence. Surprisingly, I seems to have a lot more energy available to me.

Quote of the Week

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

• Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.

• Albert Einstein

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Maryanne Nicholls is a Registered Psychotherapist.  To find out more, gain access to her weekly newsletter, meditations and programmes, sign up at www.thejoyofliving.co .