Personal Evolution Within Your
Lifetime
"Consciousness is destiny.
Instead of being dictated to by your genes and chemical processes in the
brain, it may turn out that you are the author of your own life -- capable of
change, healing, creativity and
personal transformation."
I was recently told by a mentor of mine that growing up is a
choice.
Age is just a number and does not mean one is more mature.
Yes. I know everyone says this but it has never been so
obvious then in the people I interact with daily. People in their late 40s with
children, still stuck in the mind set of a middle school.
Maturity, growth, and evolving, are a person choice and one
must consciously work on it.
Her wisdom has inspired me to dig deeper into ways to evolve
myself.
Below is an excerpt from an old article I found discussing
ways to better yourself. I urge you to read. And I challenge you to work on
evolving your personal self.
Five Ways To Evolve Within Your Lifetime
Research shows you can evolve during your own lifetime
Posted Mar 28, 2011
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-new-resilience/201103/five-ways-evolve-within-your-lifetime%3famp
Stretching towards new challenges
When you challenge yourself to stretch towards a higher
level of your abilities, you also increase your overall well-being.
Interestingly, this research demonstrates the power of having a
vision of what you want to stretch your capacities and abilities towards.
Holding a vision of possibility in your consciousness tends to pulls you towards
it. Research shows that your actions that follow lead to noticeably increased happiness with
your life.Other studies indicate that people who consciously build
positive emotions, such as empathy and compassion, also increase
their resilience in the face of new challenges.
Seeding well-being in yourself and others
What goes around, comes around. Studies at UC Berkeley and
elsewhere find that when people consciously behave generously and
compassionately towards others, they become more valued and esteemed by others,
in return. And, that this, in turn, contributes to the common good.
Behaving "outside the box"
There's evidence that you can evolve by choosing to behave
in ways that are different from -- even counter to -- what you think of as your
usual or "fixed" personality traits and characteristics. That is, you
can evolve by acting more like the person you want to be. This isn't
faking; it's pushing yourself outside the box of your usual "self,"
and bringing your behavior into alignment with a picture of what those new
features would look like if you demonstrate them.
