Why is personal growth and development currently important?
(05.03.2008)

Why would these subjects be of relevance nowadays? Because they always have been. Those who are willing to develop their own skills and abilities are just more likely to achieve what they want in life, and so it makes sense that the importance of personal development stretches far beyond depending on the social climate or period of history which an individual finds themselves in. Personal development is always important- if you want to achieve most effectively.







So what may be defined as 'personal development'. I would suggest that the term is slightly misleading as we are really not developing, as much as we are uncovering the skills which are already there. To fully appreciate this, we may just need to open our minds to being more than our human body. As long as we think that we are a human being having the experience of a lifetime, it seems as though there are limitations to the knowledge we can access. I'd very much suggest that we're spiritual beings who just happen to have a human experience right now. What this indicates is that we have a knowledge and understanding which far transcends that which we have acquired in this lifetime.

And from this perspective, it suddenly becomes clearer what is meant with how personal 'development' is really more like personal 'unconditioning'. We are getting through the barriers which stand between our innate knowledge and our conscious awareness. In the realms of our subconscious, we already know the answer to whatever we want to know. We just need to create an opening in the dam of conditioning for that river of knowledge to express itself.

The way in which we do that is by essentially reprogramming the subconscious conditioning which has placed the dam there in the first place. Personal development, in my view, is really about the subconscious. This is where our daily behaviour and attitudes come from. It may be expressed by stating that what we spiritually know at a deeper level is at the base of the subconscious, while the conditioning is more towards the surface of it. If we clear the limiting beliefs which keep us from accessing the deeper knowledge, than we just know what to do automatically. And this is that occurs when we use affirmations or visualization. We are just getting through barriers to access the genius which is already there. And that to me is the very essence of personal development: to realize that we are already whole and complete, and just need to become aware of it.

-Thomas

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