What most helps your personal growth?

A Dialogue that takes a deep dive with fellow Gaians...

I could give sound bite answers, while likely hugely popular, I will not for that makes folly of the serious dialogue I think such questions are intended to open us up to having.  With that said, I shall dive in.  I hope you will take a swim with me and share your thoughts, too.  Dialogue deepens our communication and growth itself.

First off there is a question that must be asked to clarify that what is assumed is what the questioner is asking, even though the implication seems evident, it may not be the point of view (POV) of all those who answer - development of what aspect of personal exactly?  Psychological, mental, emotional, Spiritual, ego, cultural, or what?

I shall answer via an all inclusive POV since my POV recognizes that all development is inter-related albeit some are inimically tied together as a unit, such as ego~Spirit for as one waxes, the other wanes.  I choose to hone my growth toward a continual return to MAI Spirit SELF.  I feel the need to make this distinction since I am noticing many people are saying they are "working on their Spiritual development" while actualizing more and more of their ego structures with a "holy demeanor," yet their hearts are more and more judgmental of the holiness or not of others.  Nothing could be more self-deceptive than that.

I choose to be most accurately guided by God-TRUTH as juxtaposed to personal truth(s) which are belief dependent. God-TRUTH is infinitely What IS and universally applicable in a consistent, constant, and congruent way, and has no dependency on how we may feel about its veracity or not.

This all-inclusive nature, in and of itself, attests to the superior quality of God-TRUTH which  never changes and has the innate quality of stability funded from its eternal consistency and all-inclusiveness/Universality.

Also, from my POV, Spiritual overarches and is the all-inclusive growth, expect for the enhancements of separation which is ego aggrandizement development.  I love Wayne Dyer's breakdown making the word ego an acronym: EGO = Edging God Out. 

Personal or religious truth(s) are tainted and deviated from Original TRUTH by human understanding, motivations, or interpretations which inevitably cull out something unique from the Universal, making it "uniquely special," and this consequently amplifies separation over Oneness (loss of Universality)  making its assertion suspect at best, eh?

Now, that I've cleared the air of what could be a point of confusion, I shall address these questions:

1. What most helps your development?

SELFGnosis has done more for healing all the causes of what was ailing my life.  My patterns of self-destruction, my unawares of how I was attracting energies and experiences that were perpetuating pain behaviors, avoidances, misunderstandings, ad naseum, have been exposed and made clear to my outer conscious awareness so that I am no longer victim to my blindness. 

I am now forging skills, by the ever wise hand of my Higher SELF, to Pay Attention, discern with primal TAO clarity the choices I am making from moment-to-moment, making me a conscious co-creator of my life.

More & more, I am living empowered by knowing I am choosing and, thus, creating - therefore, recognizing & owning that I am response+able for all my experiences. 

Being a victim to the "vagrancies of life, fate, luck, "just way I am," "just happens," "punishment for past sins," ad naseum is not my delusional POV anymore.

1. What interferes with it?

The most trying interferences are those past inclinations responding to the accepted momentums plaguing humanity's sanity that I had a sickly endeared harmonic resonance with from my negative patterning and belief systems. 

I call these my Achilles Heel and they are anything that is a tender point of easy slippage into false ideations and fears that I know are false, yet, "hauntingly call to me" as having validity due to past momentums of affinity with them. 

These would include things like my mother's anguishing when dad was late coming home because it was triggering her fear of losing family security for 6 kids because dad was driving home drunk from the bar again. 

If my loved ones are late, I find a creeping sensation of this anguish trying to surface for me to fantasize with, thus entertaining this fear and loathing into a possible reality to contend with - the past trying to haunt my present IF I would only give it some of my time and attention. 

So, I am saying I must be a vigilant sentinel to whatever beckons me to create it into a reality of pain and suffering which is the antithesis of God-TRUTH informing  my creating realities. 

A conscious-willful-mindful-choice is the key of our ability in how we create our life realities, and this requires attention to all my thoughts, words, and deeds. 

It is not as tiresome or hard as it sounds because the process of SELFGnosis gifts you with ascending momentums of Being more God in you doing your thinking, doing, and actions.  Cool stuff.

1. What helps you truly be yourself?

To be myself can be interpreted two different ways-

1. One is to be more of my personality and my identifications which have  promulgated what makes me different from others and all the drives connected with that perspective of myself.

1. The other is to be more of MAI-SELF which is to be Who I AM as Sharon. This is allowing by free-will-choice the Divine Intention to manifest unique expressions as only our Beloved Creator can live, move, and have BE+in me/Being as me.

This is the elegant & simple understanding that WEi are a Unity of Oneness, and as such are like facets of a Cosmic Diamond.  TO be TRULY Who We Are is to shine as only our facet can shine adding unto the overall brilliancy of the Cosmic Diamond we are all integrally a part of as a wholism.

The more I heal into Who I Am and out of who I've been trying to be, the less I have need to express the patterns and pain behaviors that underlined the Sharon I grew up to be. 

Unwittingly, this was an adult who was seeking relief from her unrecognized pains, working hard responding to urges to be a productive "doing machine" for love and affection disguised as desires (sincere they truly were) to give & do my best in whatever endeavors I undertook, as well as driving my efforts to leave this world "a better place  than the one I was born into."

1. What supports your unfoldment?

SO, Consequently, SELFGnosis, which heals out our errors of POV, not with allegiances to theories, dogmas, rituals or practices, rather with transmutative forces tapped within from the Source of Indwelling Healing/HS, peels away our false identifications like an onion is peeled. 

This is the epitome of Love in action for it is not overwhelming because its step-by-step, or peeling one layer at a time away, allows for an inner awakening or regrouping of your shifted abilities and perceptions in a measured way, one that is paced by yourself. 

Since this is an Unfolding process of the highest order, it is experienced as an ease of dealing with and adjusting to Who We are without shock or a debilitating flooding of our sensibilities.  Step-by-step or peeling layer by layer is doable and amazing, at least from my experience and from those I've had the opportunity to share it with.

Unfolding is a revealing process.  We've heard the axiom, "TRUTH reveals."  We know that what is underneath a fold is revealed as it is unfolded, so the two are really an at-one process!  Simple and elegant at once is so Divine, would you not agree?

Healing out my miscreations, misunderstanding, and negative patterning while simultaneously replacing these with their diametric counterpoint energies of Universal understandings and harmonic resonant patterning is the essential action that defines transmute, transform, and transcend, and it is a pleasant process, indeed.

1. What do you find most regularly blocks your life path?

Anything deceptive, confusing, or "in my blind spot" is a block or detour I am alerting myself to pay attention to noticing and, more importantly, NOT ignoring, downplaying its importance to be dealt with, or "letting it slide." 

I've learned that such red flags are side stepped at my own peril of repeating or being "dragged into" whatever detour they are designed to distract or busy me with.

Thanks Siona  for asking this thoughtful set of questions for our sharing, pondering, and caring.

All to Love,

Sharon