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(E. Polster and Polster, 1973). Gestalt therapy makes you more aware of your environment and it helps a person to understand him or herself better, and Gestalt teaches a person to accept him or herself, and Gestalt helps people make better contact with other people. In order for a person to change their personality, they need to have self-awareness because without that, you cannot face and accept change within you, and Gestalt therapy is designed to teach awareness (Jacobs, 1989; Yontef; 1993). Gestalt therapy if done right will move a person also in the direction of assuming responsibility for their own actions, instead of making other people responsible for their thoughts and feelings. A person will develop skills and acquire values, and they will learn to ask for and get help from others, and they will eventually be able to help others themselves (Zinker, 1978). Gestalt is considered to be existential because it deals with the philosophical movement and it views the individual, the self and the experiences of an individual as well. The philosophy part is the freedom and accepting the choices that we make.

Existential therapy focuses on one person, and that is you as an individual. Human beings are alone in the world, and when we feel loneness, those feelings tend to make us think us that we are meaningless as well, so one of things that we have to do to move forward is to take the meaningless that we are feeling, and make it meaningful. Gestalt is not about self-doubt, it is about self-confidence. An example of existential would be the famous line of Stuart Smalley's character on Saturday Night Live, where he starts everyday out by looking in the mirror and saying to himself "I'm going to do a terrific show today, and I'm going to help people because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, doggonit, people like me". That is all Gestalt therapy is, it is having the self-confidence everyday to tell your self those few words. Gestalt is about the present and now and not about the past.

Your Purpose In This World.

If you do not believe that you have a purpose in this world and that you do not belong anywhere in society, than a therapist is going to have a hard time helping that individual because in order for a therapist to be successive, they must first understand where you see yourself in the world, and they have to understand your thoughts and feelings and understand where you see your place in society, and if you do not see yourself as a part of society, it

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