Personal Growth

Personal growth is about reaching a place that is a new you, the real you. It is about releasing parts of you that you no longer need and finding out about who you really are. To achieve any kind of growth is to find what is holding you back and then what you need to do to set it free. Becoming who you are and letting go of what is old is one step. Realizing that you can change is another. We so often hold ourselves back in life because we have accepted who we are. Whether or not we approve, we have come to believe, no matter the age, that who we are today is who we will always be. There is nothing further from the truth. In fact it is one of life’s biggest obstacles.
We are always changing, always evolving. The speed and the possibilities of it are all connected to how we see it. If you have carried a sadness with you all of your life, do you really believe it must always be there? If you have grown accustomed to a certain behavior, must it be so locked into your personality that you can never let it go? We stop changing when we believe we must. We stop when we have decided this is who we are.
Do you remember as a child that these were thoughts we never had, we were always reevaluating ourselves, bettering our assumptions, and constantly growing. As parents we are amazed at the emotional growth of a child, but it doesn’t need to stop there. Why as adults do we think it must? We can always carry ourselves forward in life as the same person or we too can constantly evolve and grow. Personal growth is realizing that we can, that we must in fact accelerate our potential by being our best, our true self, that is capable of always changing.
Any habit, fear, or emotional block we may have is only attached to an idea that has been accepted. When we choose to no longer accept the validity of this reason, we open ourselves up to growth. We give ourselves a chance to let go, to release what we have been holding onto for so long. And in the end, we are open to identifying ourselves with who we really are, not an old idea or a programmed response. We are then free to constantly change and be open to life.