There are endless courses, workshops and training in the area of self development. It is a huge growth industry. Many people are discovering that their lives don't completely fulfill them. They want to achieve more, be more complete, break through inner barriers.
But what if you don't need training at all to reveal your greatest potential? What if all you have to do is unfold into yourself to discover everything you could ever be? What if just by being the real you, the environment shapes naturally around you to first reveal and then satisfy your heart's longing?...
It seems like so much training today, although well intentioned, has the effect of creating desires and wants that don't fulfill us. The true self doesn't need to be 'better', more of this or less of that and the more we allow ourselves to be persuaded that we don't already have everything we need RIGHT now INSIDE of us ALREADY, the more we become less than the true self.
Perhaps we don't need more programming. Perhaps we need less, a lot less until there are no programs at all. Then we are free to follow the pull of the heart, pure and unfiltered. In my view therefore, any 'training' we engage in should be about connecting to the true self or further developing only those skills that we find already within us. The lyric's of the great Pink Floyd song "Another Brick in the Wall" gets the drift. If we're not careful education is just another brick in the wall blocking the path home to your true self.
"We don't need no education,
We don't need no thought control,
No dark sarcasm in the classroom,
Hey teacher leave these kids alone"
So if you've had enough of doing self development workshops that don't deliver what they promise, maybe its time to strip away the facade and do something that really helps you discover your authentic self?
RE: Perhaps we don't need more programming?
still not sure about the fabulous business though Joanna:D
I hear what you're saying. It's just it's like saying an apple is fabulous or a rose is fabulous. It's just an apple or a rose and can't be anything else. Yet when I'm in the mood for something crunch and juicy an apple can be fabulous or something that looks pretty in a vase, a rose can be fabulous but it's just my subjective opinion giving it that adjective to what is just an apple or just a rose. I'm I'm just who I am and can't help being and can't change what is essentially me even I if I try. I can only show forth various facets one of which might be called fabulous in some context and one of which might be an annoying, argumentative, contrary pest.....:)
RE: Perhaps we don't need more programming?
Hi all
Just a thought:
What is an apple without body or flavour= Just an Apple.
What is a rose without its scent andcolour = Just a rose.
I run workshops and firmly believe that I lead the apple and the rose to the moment that they find theirbody and scentfor themselves. When that point comes you know that all the effort was worthwhile
RE: Perhaps we don't need more programming?
but isn't an apple with body and flavour still an apple etc????
RE: Perhaps we don't need more programming?
ORIGINAL: trin
There are endless courses, workshops and training in the area of self development. It is a huge growth industry. Many people are discovering that their lives don't completely fulfill them. They want to achieve more, be more complete, break through inner barriers.
But what if you don't need training at all to reveal your greatest potential? What if all you have to do is unfold into yourself to discover everything you could ever be? What if just by being the real you, the environment shapes naturally around you to first reveal and then satisfy your heart's longing?...
It seems like so much training today, although well intentioned, has the effect of creating desires and wants that don't fulfill us. The true self doesn't need to be 'better', more of this or less of that and the more we allow ourselves to be persuaded that we don't already have everything we need RIGHT now INSIDE of us ALREADY, the more we become less than the true self.
I can agree with this, I know that here in the USA where I live the self-help industry makes big bucks, so to speak and that seems to be their primary purpose. It's amazing what the power of suggestion can do -- suggesting that one needs more self-help.
I like the idea that the best solution is for one to look within oneself. It worked for me. 😀
RE: Perhaps we don't need more programming?
but isn't an apple with body and flavour still anapple etc????
In the context that it was given then IMHO NO!!!!!!!!!!