Growing into Your True Self: A Year of Change

We are not returning to a previous version of ourselves; we are arriving at a new level that requires all previous experiences to be accessed. The masks we wear in public, by our ego or exterior surface–is finally breaking. Our dream state or creative self–not a part of our daily do list–what our executive function decides is important; is not in the internal depths which have reached the necessary level to sustain our rise. This is how our inner garden grows. To bloom as our true self!

There is no external reward coming. Nothing is growing here. Beneath the of frustration and despair in silence; this emptiness–is where we really change and grow.

Carl Jung talks about the Bamboo Metaphor: Once you plant bamboo, you’ll never be able to get rid of it–at least here in Hawaii. Just like the aloe vera plants, they resemble Audrey 2 in “The Little Shop of Horrors.” But here’s the thing. Bamboo species can spend five years appearing to do nothing on the surface. They are building a massive root system before rising to (in some varieties), up to ninety feet tall! Any Deadpool-like stale watery thoughts that keep getting resent to our brain over and over, are like the massive root system underground in a bamboo shoot planted. Truth is, we’re building a foundation.

And the foundation, once in place, can skyrocket tall like a bamboo tree into your new self. Alongside our descent into darkness, we bury our true gold–our most potent gifts–which we usually gloss over because we take our artistic or poetic self for granted, especially if we let our ego compare ourself to famous actors (or infamous ones if you’re like me) – and celebrity painters, writers and singers.

The point psychologist Carl Jung is trying to make: that once an absolute limit is reached, a reversion or breakthrough pushes forward–like the pile of sand or dirt or rock that gets too big or steep and reaches avalanche stage and the pile slides down–like Highway 1 on the California coast!

So whether you rise:

Or whether you fall:

Be it known it’s because you are growing into the person you truly are–and have always been!

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