This week, I got in contact again with the concept of ‘creative cause’. It describes that we can see meaning and grow from challenges that stretch or block us. It argues that we attract what we aspire, that there is always a reason why things happen and that there is something to learn from what happens. It teaches how you should turn an ‘upset’ – something that is disturbing – in a “set up” – something to grow from or move on with. A few quotes capture the essence:

“We attract experiences to us
that allow us to become conscious
of limited or restricted aspects of ourselves
in order to transform.”
Carl Jung

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
Viktor Frankl

As a professor in psychiatry and survivor of the concentration camps, Frankl wrote a very interesting book on Man’s Search for Meaning. Recommended reading.

Every troubled situation has something “good” or “for the better” in it…

Best,

Chris