Each of us has strengths and weakness, and we need to identify what they are if we want to work with our personal issues in order to grow.
No is about boundaries, Hello about expanding our horizons, Thanks to do with appreciation of what we have, Goodbye is about moving on. With Please, we intend to fulfil our vision, Sorry helps us take others into account and Yes enables us to accept what we can't change.
Spiritual growth and Personal Development are intimately connected activities, each one promoting the other...and this teaching addresses both sides of the equation.
Any significant life process has to start with awareness of our exact circumstances here and now, and to be completely honest about this through self-examination, to discover what we find unacceptable. From there we can consider what we might want to change by consulting the heart about available options. This precipitates decision and movement. Only then are we able to create a clear vision that draws us forward enthusiastically. Lessons of forgiveness and adaptability follow on from this.
Various teaching methods offer different approaches to each of these stages, and we can use several - from NLP, shamanism, astrology, sufism and 7 words - to expand our options of behaviour and optimize our chances of finding real joy in ordinary life.
.
|