Self-Work – Consciously accepting how much of myself is either hard-wired or evolving.
- August 25, 2020
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Corporate Offerings, Transformational Open Programs
Life-long conditioning and circumstances makes us who we are and plays a vital role in influencing our trajectory in life.
Paraphrasing Elvis Presley, ‘This conditioning is like fingerprints. No one’s are the same, but you leave them in everything you do.’
Along with constantly describing the world to us, this conditioning decides how we project ourselves to the world, where we choose to be conscious of our identities and the power we hold and where we have decided that being conscious is not worthwhile.
Unlike fingerprints, our conditioning isn’t done and over with, only to fade with age. Our conditioning is constantly happening with our knowledge, awareness and understanding of life’s experiences either reinforcing or diminishing aspects of prior conditioning.
The two extremes in the operating assumption, if we were to put our conditioning on a scale are –
- Someone who believes they are totally hard-wired. Here, life deals you with stuff and your unique response which comes automatically is what separates you as an individual. Things happen to you and you just happen to be the way you are. (either a victim or a perpetrator)
- Someone who feels they are ever-evolving. Life deals you with stuff here as well and your unique response is “consciously chosen”. Things happen to you and you know how your internal code is going to process it and you are aware when this code needs to be modified.
Obviously, for most of us, we are somewhere in between these two extremes on a scale. The mystery to solve is where are we on the scale & how long do we think our scale can be?
We are not writing this to endorse Self work as being some silver-bullet or single approach which is going to leave you with a clear head and heart, ready to receive all of life’s bounty, leaving behind the traumas of the past.
It is first about discovering and accepting your complex or simple code. These codes decide your behaviours, actions, thoughts, driving emotions, prejudices, beliefs and values. And then deciding how to modify your code, what are the constants(hard-wiring) and what are the variables(evolving) in your code to when and how to de-bug the code.
Self-work is work. Work which consumes time and energy. Work which continues over a period of time. But also work which is rewarding, which becomes foundational for a fulfilling life.
It is work which the Artth family has chosen to make it’s career, which has personally rewarded many of us and enables us to seek out the best in ourselves and others. It energizes us, motivates us and brings in clarity and enriching perspectives like never before.
We wish to share this with everyone and will be writing more about how to prepare oneself for Self-work, do Self-work and keep at it, at a pace you decide is best for you.