Why is There a Void? How can I Pinpoint What Is Causing it?

Question

Everyone, at least at one point in there life, feels a void. I'm a good person. Things are good. I have everything I need to flourish, and come into my own. However, why does it feel like there is something more i need to achieve? Or, rather, there is something missing which I could get. If there is, in fact, something like this, how do I go about figuring out what "it" is? I need a method of prognosis.

Answer 1

Drugs will fix it, there is a drug for everything.

But honestly you are a self motivated driven person, you may never feel completely satisfied, but why is that a bad thing?

If you don't let this feeling/thought get the best of you and you use it as a motivator then there is no problem. Direct it to progression.

Don't worry, I have a wonderful wife, a good job, good pay, etc... but I am still not content or complacent and probably never will be but I have come to accept it. You can be happy but not feel totally satisfied.

Answer 2

It sounds like you have reached the point in life where you are starting to figure out that living for maximum pleasure leaves an empty unsatisfied feeling.

It took me a long time to come to that realization. The answer for me has been the Christian faith. It has helped me begin to understand why I am here, and what I am supposed to be doing.

I encourage you to visit a local pastor, or read the bible (especially the New Testament). Do not let people tell you about the faith; instead investigate it for yourself. You may find the answer to your question.

Answer 3

This is the irony of feeling a void in one self , Are you religious of some kind ???, believe it or not faith of some sort which ever you choose , seams to fill that void , believing in some thing grater than your self , some thing or some one that makes your life worth-wile fills that void . It seams we humans do need in our psyche the feeling of being taken care of by supernatural forces . If you are all ready religious then disregard my statement and aim into doing some thing extraordinary for your fellow people , this usually also will fill the empty void , the void that you fill is the space for deep love that you will fill with the action or believe of some thing you reach for .

Answer 4

If the external man affirms and the internal man denies, the person is in a bad state. For instance, many religious people pretend outwardly to a faith which inwardly laugh at and think nonsense. This is a worse state than mockery in the external man and belief in the internal man. Of course, there are many who are afraid to expose to the world what they really think and believe and so seem to laugh at anything serious.
But there are also those who think that they think serious things nonsense and have not yet discovered that at a deeper level they do not think like that at all. For we think differently at different levels and one aspect of self study is to realize it. The deeper, more interior levels of a man do not share the outlook and and thoughts belonging to superficial levels.
If the Work (Self-Study). penetrating inwardly a small distance, comes up against denial then no matter how much affirming is being displayed in the external man, it is stopped. Why? Because the psychological effect of denial is to block the way as much as, physically, does a stone wall.
But is it not extraordinary that although we know that of tangible and material things some can be suitable or the reverse for a building in the physical world, or in the right or wrong place, we have no such corresponding idea about thoughts, feelings, attitudes, both positive and negative, in the psychological world, for of such fine, intangible substances are the building materials. And are we not compared with houses where the top story is not yet built? We are unfinished. I suppose then, that this top story, or most internal part-- for higher and more internal have the same significance-- will not and never can be built if the way inward is blocked by denial and the man is only opened to the world. For the external man opens only on the world and its realities. (You have just had a telephone message to say your grandmother is ill and will you come at once and the baby has a nasty rash and the doctor has not come and the soot has fallen all over the nursery and you left your purse at Woolworths (Wal-Mart) and you simply must see that new film and Bob hardly glanced at you this morning and it looks like a thunderstorm.) There are plenty of life-realities. But there are psychological realities also and they are on a different level. That Bob hardly looked at you this morning and that you are beginning to feel suspicious and jealous are quite different realities. They are distinct and you have got to work and work on yourself until you can percieve this without a doubt. I had nearly said, without any denial. For here is a separation that has to be made of the finest kind and with the finest knife of consciousness - or else something remains stuck to something and the path of internal development is blocked. It is the internal and the external man that must be separated. This is impossible if you take life-realities and your reaction to them as the same. They are not the same. The tree that I am looking at now is not the same as what I am thinking of it. The reality of a tree belongs to the world of sense, an anyone can behold it as well as I. But the thought I have of it is not of the world of sensibles. It is a psychological reality: it is a reality in my private psychological world. These two realities are utterly distinct. They are not naturally so, but become so by work. The are many complex interactions between them, but the principle in the Work is that the higher level should control the lower level.--that is, the internal man should control the external, and the internal being on a higher level than the external. Otherwise things are in the wrong order. If the relatively internal belives and the external does not, it is a favorable situation, and invites temptation safely. But if the relatively internal denies, the belief of the external will be easily shaken for it is founded on sand and not on the rock. It will believe as long as the others say they do, for the external man is very collective and thus imitative.

As the Work goes on, we have to play a strip act. We have to discard all sorts of things -- as not being I. We have got to make ourselves increasingly objective to ourselves. We now see ourselves dimly in a limited way. Why? Because our consciousness is so limited. In consequence, a great deal remains unconscious. Sometimes dreams may help, when they show us something about ourselves in their own language. In this little conscious island that we inhabit, Imaginary "I" reigns arrogantly. Its constant utterance is, " I am the power and the glory". Yes, the cure for self-love and self-worship is impossible unless this wretched little man or woman is shifted off his throne. This means, until this psuedo-center of consciousness in us is moved towards the sea-- that is, towards what we are unconscious of. I mean, that the area of consciousness must enlarge, which happens everytime we see something about ourselves. For the inner can see the outer but not vice versa. The outer may think there is no other God but itself. The inner can know better once it gives up the fashionable art of denial. This whole question of denial lying beneath the surface requires attention.

Answer 5

You are the only one that can find what is missing. Perhaps there is something that you want to accomplish that you aren't able to? Perhaps you have free time and don't know how you should spend it? Perhaps you would like to understand how the universe works, and your purpose in the plan of salvation?

Answer 6

I can give you a hint, take it as an experiment!0!

Relax and focus a little bit on whatever pleases/pains you.

Good luck!

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs