(beingthere)14.personal growth
It has been awhile since you started this short course in Enlightenment. If you have not been re-reading the former chapters periodically, we recommend that you do so. Some of the concepts you are receiving now will make more sense when they are read in context of the whole picture. It seems helpful to summarize here what you have received so far.
Enlightenment is not an instantaneous event. It occurs as a result of a lifelong process of seeking consciousness. In order to seek consciousness, you must be aware of the different levels of consciousness and why some are lower and others are Higher Consciousness. This involves changing your self-paradigm to a four-aspected model that includes the emotional aspect along with the well-known mental, physical and spiritual aspects.
Seeking consciousness is an active pursuit. It involves practicing a set of skills that allows you complete awareness of your inner dynamics, your Personal Truth, awareness of the responsibility you are claiming, and awareness of the behavior you must choose to be consistent with your truth. The pursuit of Higher Consciousness, including Enlightenment, is a continuous process of practicing specific skills, moment-by-moment, day-by-day, year-by-year. You have very little direct control over the level of consciousness you realize, or your Enlightenment. You have complete control over the process you practice to take you there.
Personal growth results from learning specific skills on each aspect of being. This learning process must begin with increasing your emotional skills, for most people, simply because very few people have been adequately trained in emotional skills, if at all. The lessons that must be learned at any level of consciousness are recognized from the repetition of dealing effectively with your personal issues. Issues are recognized from the dynamics that you practice automatically. And dynamics are identified through input from a person trained to help you recognize and explore them. This also requires that you know how to process your emotions.
Emotional skills are the key to your personal growth. Regardless of how well-developed you are mentally, spiritually or physically, you must learn and practice healthy emotional skills to successfully pursue Higher Consciousness. The next chapter will begin to explain these skills.
Enlightenment is not an instantaneous event. It occurs as a result of a lifelong process of seeking consciousness. In order to seek consciousness, you must be aware of the different levels of consciousness and why some are lower and others are Higher Consciousness. This involves changing your self-paradigm to a four-aspected model that includes the emotional aspect along with the well-known mental, physical and spiritual aspects.
Seeking consciousness is an active pursuit. It involves practicing a set of skills that allows you complete awareness of your inner dynamics, your Personal Truth, awareness of the responsibility you are claiming, and awareness of the behavior you must choose to be consistent with your truth. The pursuit of Higher Consciousness, including Enlightenment, is a continuous process of practicing specific skills, moment-by-moment, day-by-day, year-by-year. You have very little direct control over the level of consciousness you realize, or your Enlightenment. You have complete control over the process you practice to take you there.
Personal growth results from learning specific skills on each aspect of being. This learning process must begin with increasing your emotional skills, for most people, simply because very few people have been adequately trained in emotional skills, if at all. The lessons that must be learned at any level of consciousness are recognized from the repetition of dealing effectively with your personal issues. Issues are recognized from the dynamics that you practice automatically. And dynamics are identified through input from a person trained to help you recognize and explore them. This also requires that you know how to process your emotions.
Emotional skills are the key to your personal growth. Regardless of how well-developed you are mentally, spiritually or physically, you must learn and practice healthy emotional skills to successfully pursue Higher Consciousness. The next chapter will begin to explain these skills.
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