Wholeness Regained or Wholeness Evolved?
As wholeness becomes a reality through healing internal wounds, do we consider that we have regained or evolved into it? Were we waiting to be made whole again or have we progressed forward into the transformed state?
Let me suggest a new perspective, the answer is neither. We have simply realigned ourselves with what is, and always has been, real. The essence, the soul has been present as we intelligently and wisely made provision for its preservation out of the wisdom of our childhood. But we do not return to a childish state in regaining it and neither do we evolve into it. Therapy on the level of personality and character is backward-looking, but only to sink more deeply into the present conditions of awareness and consciousness and to shed the patterns and restrictions of behavior and experience that we have brought with us as habit and protection from our seminal years.
Therapy then is the process of discovering what has always been the case now that we are courageous enough and self-responsible enough to accept it. As such it is the gateway to reality. Let us look now at some of the psychological conditions we might encounter as therapists dealing with compromises to individual wholeness.
Excerpt from SAT Online Training, Level 1 lecture manuscript
https://www.centerforhumanawakening.com/SAT-Online-Training-Is-It-For-You.html
Director at Doctor Robert
7 年Well done.
Serving your personal journey toward enlightenment
7 年Richard Harvey’s article “Wholeness Regained or Wholeness Evolved?” evoked some powerful realizations for me. One of the focuses of Harvey’s article revolves around our journey back to wholeness from a fractured state that is born out of our earlier childhood conditioning. This healing journey can only be realized through intense inner work and the shedding of our story, especially our story of our early childhood. As I reflect back on my own inner work and the shedding of my story, especially the story of my early childhood, I realize just how much of my story I have shed. But this shedding of one’s story can leave oneself in a perilous place. There is a new-found peace in re-writing all you thought was (‘thought’ being the operative word). However, countering this new awareness and stillness can be a constant bombardment of messaging from family and society about the way it was, why you should be returning to that state of being, and the feeling of abandonment revisited all over again. There can be a period of ‘tug of war’ between one’s new-found freedom and taunting forces to return back to the numb, status quo. Once one makes a decision for true freedom and a wholesale shedding of one’s story, the journey toward wholeness moves into another gear and takes on an accelerated pace. It is not unusual to look back at the story and shake one’s head at the way one used to see things—realizing it was so contorted and skewed toward judgement and separative relationships—that one can only laugh at the folly of the disoriented perception of early childhood conditioning. Harvey writes in his article that therapy can be a process “of discovering what has always been the case now that we are courageous enough and self-responsible enough to accept it.” I have also heard it said that therapy is simply about removing the blockages to truth; removing the blockages to the truth of our early childhood conditioning; removing the blockages to truth about our fractured state; and removing the blockages to truth about our wholeness. Ultimately, however, it’s all about removing the blockages to loves presence. For in that rediscovery is forgiveness born and the opportunity to return to oneness with our Creator.