Smiling in Hell
posted in Personal Development, The Law of Attraction, Motivation, Inspiration, Success, Self Improvement, Dream, Goal, Attraction Accelerator, Law of Attraction, Enthusiasm, Positive Thinking, Life, Power, mindset, believes, belief |An Austrian psychiatrist named Viktor Frankl was kept in Nazi concentration camp for some time, suffering tortures and humiliation. Frankl ever felt despaired in a place like this where there were only indignity and inhumane massacre and blood-shed. Those who held the guns were like wild beast that could just kill a mother, a child or an old man without blinking his eyes. He lived in fear all the time. He was greatly pressurized psychologically by this fear for dying. Everyday in the concentration camp, there would be someone who went insane because to this. Frankl knew very well that if he couldn’t keep his mind in a stable state, he would not be able to escape from the fate of having mental breakdown too.
Once, Frankl was with a long line of prisoners to a site in the concentration camp for labor when, along the way, he had a hallucination. Will I be able to return alive tonight? Will I be able to eat today’s dinner? Will I be able to find a new shoe lace to replace the one worn-out? The hallucination made him feel wearied and uneasy. Therefore, he forced himself not to think about those horrible and upsetting things. Instead, he made himself to imagine him on the way to delivering a speech. He came to a brightly-lit spacious classroom and delivered his speech spiritedly. Gradually, a smile emerged on his face. It was a long lost smile. When he realized that he still could smile, he knew that he would not die in the concentration camp. He will walk out of it alive.
When he was released from the concentration camp, Frankl looked full of spirit without a look of weariness. His friends could not believe it – how could a person maintained his youth in a place like hell?
That is the magical power of one’s mentality. Sometimes, one’s mentality could defeat many negative miserable conditions. For a human being to survive, he needs a little food and water. But for him to live on, and live it to the fullest, he needs to have a broad mind, a spirit to fight on despite repeated setbacks and the wisdom to dissolve pain and bitterness.
