What you might need to know to accelerate personal growth ?
What you might need to know to accelerate personal growth ?
The most fascinating theme in any movie is the transformation of the main character, who evolves from a lower state of awareness to a higher one. Although this theme is repeated with minor variations in one movie after another, people do not tire of it because it represents their own story.
The meaning of life may itself be entirely about personal growth. Enlightenment is said to be the final vision, where you see everything in a whole new light, with the universe and your neighbours as part of a massive conspiracy of beauty, elegance, love, and wisdom.
Personal growth happens by default ( Because life is not still ).
Life itself forces it to happen.
The more stimulating the environment, the more it challenges you to accelerate your personal growth.
Personal growth can be defined as the evolution of awareness, a journey from a narrow, dysfunction perspective to a broader, functional one. It is an expansion of perception.( Reaching some kind of awareness )
The reason why it can be thought of as an evolutionary force is because it is the result of adaptation to a stressor. All problems are due to an error in perception; a challenge is posed by the environment for you to adapt or suffer the consequences of failure ( It can only be perceived as a failure state when you refuse to make any learnings about the proposed challenge ).
For example, a poor state of health is due to a physical challenge, a rocky relationship is due to an interaction challenge, and a scarcity of finances is due to an economic challenge. The reason it is a challenge is because it threatens your sense of well-being, and failure to respond in a more adaptive way is to experience the collapse of what you need.
In a nutshell, personal growth happens when your inner map of how the world works is incorrect. You discover that your perception is inaccurate because your experience is misaligned with your desire.
What is needed is more information, an upgrade of your inner map. New streets need to be drawn in, new paths need to be discovered.
Every problem is an evolutionary taunt.
For example, if you are being financially challenged, what is needed is a new model on how to earn more and manage your money better. A bill that you do not have the means to pay is a financial challenge.
Adaptation occurs when new information is learned. This information changes the structure of the challenge. The result of your mental upgrade about what works now becomes your new model. Using the money example, new information may come in the form of learning how to make more money. This information is then available for you to respond to the world in a more functional way.
Life is constantly posing challenges like this and we are constantly learning how to adapt to these pressures. Each successfully resolved challenge is soon followed by another challenge at the next level. Each unsuccessfully resolved challenge results in your staying at your current level. It's called "feeling stuck" or "in a rut."
This is the process of personal growth.
How do you define personal growth based on your own perception and life story ? looking forward to be reading you .Take care, P
Hi Patricia
Very interesting article thanks for posting. My perception of personal growth is the various stages/situations one experiences in life. For me at the moment, personal growth is about getting to know myself, discovering my passions, trying new things, becomimg independant . The most challenging part of personal growth for me is facing fears and moving out of my comfort zone. However I need to trust and believe that I AM STRONG and the more I move out of my comfort zone the more I get to experience in life. I know I could remain in my so called safe place but that's not what life is all about, afterall when I am an old woman what kind of memories do I want to recall? Its my CHOICE and as you mention on your post every challenge in life reveals an important learing which utimately enhances ones personal growth.









Thanks a lot Cherry for sharing with us your own meaning of personal growth.You sound very clear about what you are looking to takle in order to continue growing towards freedom of being and living.You also seem to have a very good idea on how you are going to manage to do that : Trying new things,getting to know yourself,discovering your passions. Sounds lovely and very powerful. Getting your voice back ( Assertiveness to express what you need and how you feel ) can be a very beneficial way as well.I will also recommend mindfulness living ( I have posted many things about mindfulness living in the past-Maybe refer to them ) as You might be familiar with the concept.Mindfulness brings you into the here and now and encourages constructive living.Thanks again for taking time to write to us. Take care, Patricia