The "Gestalt prayer" is a 56-word statement by psychotherapist
Fritz Perls that
is taken as a classic expression of Gestalt
therapy as way of
life model of which Dr. Perls was a founder.
The key idea of the statement is the
focus on living in response to one's own needs, without projecting onto or
taking introjects1 from
others. It also expresses the idea that it is by fulfilling their own needs
that people can help others do the same and create space for genuine contact;
that is, when they "find
each other, it's beautiful."
1 the process where
the subject replicates in itself behaviors, attributes or other fragments of
the surrounding world, especially of other subjects
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