CHAPTER 4 Self, Life and Enlightenment It is comforting for us to feel that we know ourselves enough to function optimally in any given situation without having to introspect further than we deem necessary for immediate survival. We would rather not go around digging things up that we prefer to forget anyway. Let sleeping dogs lie, if it’s not broken let’s not fix it sort of attitude especially if we were managing without it so far. Some are on a genuinely successful growth path making great successes of almost all aspects of their lives. Regardless of where we are, our current lifestyles success levels are directly dependent on how much we really know ourselves. The differential between the actual and authentic us primarily account for the lifestyle we lead today. Our mental, spiritual, emotional, soulful, psychological and physiological capacities are directly influenced by our self awareness levels. Who we are is told by our life stories, those that we tell as they relate and correlate our true life stories. They have a clear distinction with our life histories. Ivor Goodson’s view is that a life …show more content…
Objectifying this, coupled with experienced real life challenges and the dogma in us influences our progression. It forms strong foundations that energize us in our inner core and throughout our future journey. In the process, we realise a much deeper understanding of how we function in relation to our realities. It is critical for us to chat pathways that originate and ground, found and emerge, navigate and emancipate and finally implement and transform those challenges residing in us that hold us back. This comprehensive approach borrows from strengths and capacities, simultaneously learning from subsequent imbalances. It is inclusive and emphasises some aspects that are omitted in most self-awareness design