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Existential humanistic therapy is a collaborative journey shared by a client and a therapist to ease clients' suffering and to expand their self-awareness, consciousness, and ability to change. As part of this therapeutic journey, the experience of awe may be an important component. Indian classical music can bring about an experience of awe and is examined in this article through the lens of existential humanistic psychotherapy as a relatively unexplored avenue for deep healing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Existential psychotherapy places existential issues at the centerpiece of an individual's psychological health. In many ways, it is an iconoclastic approach to dealing with mental health issues that is premised on strong fundamentals of philosophy. Poetry has also been performing a similar task of healing individuals by enabling them to access their deeper levels of self. It combines the linguistic, cultural, spiritual, and intellectual heritage of its source of origin along with universal givens to create distinct and fascinating patterns of similar eternal truths. This article explores the aura and mystique of Urdu poetry as a healing tradition in an existential-humanistic sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]