Today I'm deep in the mindful awareness and remembering from my days years ago, in psychology, graduate school, of the concept and importance of existentialism. The idea that humans need, and want a sense of meaning in their lives, and often, if we are unhappy or unfulfilled, or even unhealthy it's because this desire for meaning and fulfillment is not being honored in our lives. There's a thing called an existential crisis, which is a heightened moment that we may have a painful awareness of the lack of meaning in our lives, and how this actually feels for us; yet I see the solution is in realizing how important a sense of meaning is in our lives IS and building that in --as well as dedicating ourselves to allowing through our purpose and passions as part of finding that meaning and sense of contribution to the world. Our mental health is highly tied to our sense of meaning, so if you're like me, I think it's time we ask ourselves, am I having an existential crisis? and, loving seeing this as a beautiful thing, and a potent time for awakening in our lives.

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