Creating Ourselves Daily - Dynamic Focus Part 1

There is a fundamental fallacy in the current western thinking that suggests that we need to "find ourselves" or "discover who we really are."  The truth is that "who" we are is constantly in flux.  We are more of a dynamic interplay of forces, influences, choices, events, successes, failures and experiences than a single "unity" that needs to be discovered or found.  We are constantly changing, evolving or devolving, growing in new ways or shrinking.  Our bodies keep changing just as our mind, emotions and identity keeps shifting.  Dr. Seuss had it more right in Oh the Places You'll Go than all of my graduate classes in psychology put together.  

We do not need to find ourselves; we need to be open to creating and recreating who we "be" and who we are becoming every day.  We are, in our truest essence, complex, ever changing becomings more than we are beings.   Dr. Roberto Assagioli, the great Italian psychiatrist, in his insightful book Psychosynthesis suggested that we have at least 64 sub-personalities or aspects of our consciousness.  Dr. Fred Alan Wolfe, a quantum physicist, argues that everything is a field of possibility that only becomes "fixed" when we put our attention on it.  And the quality of our intention, how we view things, changes the world around us as well as "who" we are.  Trying to discover yourself is like looking in a forest to find the ultimate tree that explains it all.  The forest is a complex eco-system of living creatures, habitats, nutrients, soil and possibilities.  We are more like that complex eco-system in being than we are some self, some identity that needs to be discovered.  

We create ourselves every day with every choice, decision, thought and action with which we engage. We do not need to "find ourselves" to express ourselves more powerfully and joyfully in the world.  Instead, we need to engage in a more dynamic focus in our everyday lives through which we more openly entertain possibilities, exercise curiosity, explore new ways of perceiving, thinking and acting.  When we play in the field of possibilities that comprise the universe-with-which-we-are-participating, we create ourselves everyday into a richer, more enlivening, more potent, more engaging and more joyful becoming.