Thinking a lot about how our perceptions are dictated by our subconscious root beliefs.
The power of the unconscious is immense. It really runs the show and wins all inner battles.
Unless we slow down enough to notice them. Not an easy feat in this fast-forward, factory-line productivity obsessed, post-industrial paradigm.
It is ESSENTIAL to question beliefs that keep us from growth and progress because if we don’t, we simply won’t.
No deep questions about our root thought systems, no expansion upward and outward.
Now, there are those who have the compulsion to challenge their beliefs, driven by the desire to grow, but then there are some who don’t seem to need to challenge themselves with a comfort of things as they are. Some call this the difference between the a “growth” mindset and a “fixed” mindset. Most of us are fixed until necessity abruptly nudges the need for development. Maybe it’s just the definition of maturity.
Maturity is optional.
I’m having yet another growth spurt and it’s the most fascinating pain I’ve ever experienced. This refinement, this maturation is exquisite. This death of old beliefs brings grief, like any other death. There is grieving from the process of rebirth. This time, this shedding of skins brings a surrender; a whole new skill I’ve yet to experience, let alone master.
At my age, with all I’ve grown from, you’d think I’d be used to the phenomenon of growth and expansion.
Nah, in spite of my original mission in my 20’s to get “used to” change, and I can honestly say, it’s impossible, at least from my vantage point. That desire to “get used to it” probably stems from the lack of stability from Day One. The only thing I am used to is uncertainty and that, my friends, brings quite an interesting point of view that many don’t get the opportunity to lean into. Still, I’d love to learn stability based in faith and trust.
Praying for that being in the proverbial cards in the chapters to come.
Aging is certain. Expansion and the shedding of skins is not. Many live in skins too tight for their souls and live with the discomfort. Ultimately, the final expansion is not optional, the final shedding of this particular ego-lifetime.
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