Benefits of being in a committed relationship with personal development
Understanding benefits of personal development by understanding core principles
Before I start to speak about the benefits of personal development, I want to spend some time explaining what personal development is and how it can transform your life… just the way it has mine 🙂
Simply put, personal development is a journey. It is a journey to self. A journey that leads to remembering who you are and what your pure potential is. Personal development is definitely not about mindset and how to create a positive mindset. Personal development helps you remember the light that is already in you. You need to see the light to create long lasting changes in your mind-set.
My journey to self began with what I thought was personal development .. mind-set work. I discovered after all, that we can’t really work on mindset without working towards finding ourselves. Once we find out who we are and we uncover our true identity (like a mountain), mindset adjusts accordingly. That process is simply automatic. Your mind-set is a reflection of the life themes you operate in. (More about this later)
That is why practicing daily affirmations never worked for me. They did not feel correct. Even if I spent an hour saying “I am enough”, I never believed myself! And until I started to shift the patterns that made me feel “not enough”, I kept on feeling insecure in every aspect of my life. And that feeling of not enough-ness led to failed businesses, failed relationships and failed connection to my highest self.
Real personal development is to remember our true natural state. The state that we are meant to embrace. If the personal development journey that you are on is not helping you remember your true self, you are doing it in a way that is not really serving your highest good.
How to practice personal development
I can only share what I know.. through my experiences trying to figure out who I am and what I am doing here…
For years I was trying to figure out why I always struggled for success in literally every aspect of my life.. career, happiness, relationships, money.. and why nothing came easy to me.
The way I figured out life was by practicing personal development in a way that my life would shift instantly. For the better of course 🙂
I jumped so many hurdles with ease because I was finally doing it right. In this video I explain how everyone can shift their patterns to create a brand new and much more positive reality for themselves. I really hope this video will help you understand how to practice a real form of personal development.
THE unlimited benefits of personal development
I am going to start with the biggest benefit of any personal growth journey. And in this blog post I will only talk about this benefit. Because by understanding this benefit, your life will start to flow effortlessly and every challenge will bring about a blossoming in your being.
And that benefit is:
DISCERNMENT.
Discernment is the ability to tell right from wrong. The ability to judge a situation for its higher purpose.
In the last few years, our world has seen chaos, sacrifice, fear, lack and greed. It has also seen courage and patience and resilience.
Why is it that the same situation will create two very separate reactions (FEAR on the one hand and FAITH on the other hand) in two people?
Why is it that struggle will make one person excel and another give up?
The answer lies in discernment.
Your core values will influence the way you approach any situation. You can either choose to react in a not so positive fashion … and in that case you will not be able to access a solution that is positive for you. Or. You can choose to react in an optimal fashion.. so that the challenge ends up creating a positive opportunity for growth for you.
Do you notice that challenges are opportunities for personal development? If not that, what is the purpose of struggle? There is none.
Your sense of self will directly impact your ability to discern a situation.
Discernment is the #1 positive outcome among the many other benefits of personal development.
HOw are you pursuing personal development?
Let’s say that you have a health challenge come up… you can apply discernment even to that personal struggle. How? Well firstly by understanding that any health challenge does not happen to you. It happens for you.
Why? To awaken you. To help you understand something about yourself that you have ignored in the past.
When you choose to look at a challenge for what its true purpose is, it will help you awaken to a higher level of being.
And if you keep practicing a higher level of discernment, over time you will be able to make decisions very fast … decisions that are good for you.
DISCERNMENT LEADS TO THE RIGHT DECISIONS
My biggest struggle in the past has been slow and in-correct decision making. Or making decisions in an impulsive fashion.. based on emotion and not rooted in a stable sense of self.
Because of my erratic decision making in the past, I have experienced many challenges that were really unnecessary and could have been avoided if I simply took my time to feel into the situation before making rash decisions.
Working consistently on my inner self and calming that monkey brain, understanding emotions and the role they play and really observing why certain situations were coming up again and again in my life, helped me understand the power of this journey to self.
The inner work that I have committed to has time and again proven that good decision making is possible … one decision after another and my life does not have to always be a result of all my reactions. I can have and maintain a lot of control over my emotions, I can understand them and transmute them.
Having a solid base for self is the goal of personal development because a level of stability and mind body alignment helps us feel calm and peace in daily life. Even when certain tough situations come up, we can respond to those situations after understanding why they showed up.
how to improve your unique process of daily growth?
I have had to improve my spiritual process (spiritual because I am always trying to create a stronger connection with my highest self) bit by bit based on the feedback that I receive from my life in the now.
This is a very results centric approach. When I commit to a personal development practice for a while (such as journaling), I always evaluate if its giving me the expected results or not. If my personal growth practice fails to yield the outcomes and shifts that I want to see, I start to experiment with different tools.
After years and years of trial and error, I tend to, now, stick with 2 or 3 daily practices. I have highlighted my favourite 5 practices to get you closer to your best self in the video below.
Evaluating your unique journey will help you comprehend the more specific (to you) benefits of personal development.
Remember to take a breather. Stop and think.. ask yourself questions about why you are doing what you are doing and if its time to change up your routine. Exploration is the name of the game.
Explore your being by learning constantly, reading books and meditating. But don’t get too attached to a way of being. Because the only path forward is the path to self. Self-discovery is a beautiful journey and I wish you all the best wishes so you may blossom into your purest version.
If you need any help in your journey to self, make sure to check out other posts in my blog and also all the videos I create for you for FREE on my Youtube channel. And if you need a personal session simply contact me here.
Surrender to Soar. Because you are worth it!
