One of the aspects of living you may grapple with is the process of personal growth. How does it work? Why do you fear it? What is the most painless way to change? And, many more questions. I'd like to share with you my point of view based upon my experience watching how each of us evolves through everyday living.
Let's use the metaphor of a road. Roads are built to get us from one place to another more easily than going overland. Road also implies a line between two points. These two points are at a distance from each other. If the points were right next to each other, there would be no road. But, they are at a distance, so the road is built.
However, in the landscape of the soul, the road isn't created to span the distance between two points.The road -- built of fears, experiences, memories, rules, limits -- is the thing that has created the distance between two points. In the case of the landscape of the soul, the two points are 1: the soul; and 2: an experience or state of being the soul can no longer access.
Now, with this line of thinking, consider your decision to go for something you wish for, or becoming the person you know yourself to be. Within your landscape, you see, in the distance, the experience, the state of self, etc. You say, "I'd like to bring that back into my life. I'd like to have that experience.
So, you begin where you are standing. As you take your first step, you will almost immediately face your first obstacle. You should expect this, because the road is built of obstacles. You built it. Over many years, but you built it. But, one day you decided that you wished to be you. You were done tolerating the obstacles of other people's thoughts, rules, beliefs and your own fears.
What is most important to remember when dealing with the road is that you are not being thwarted or attacked to keep you from the goal. You are facing what has always been there -- what has built the road.
You are not a victim in the process is what I'm saying. You are the passionate soul who wishes to express itself in all it's forms and creativity. In order to do that, you've got to break down the road. Shorten it. With each lie, threat, fear, advice, you face remember why you are facing it -- to give yourself another chance to choose yourself instead.
Enjoy getting rid of all your roads so that everything you wish to experience and be is within your grasp.
