The Dance of Personal and Spritual Growth
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
– Edward Gibbon
Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
– Vita Sackville-West
“Life is flux,” it is said, and change would seem to be one of the unavoidable hallmarks of life. I personally feel that one of the reasons we are here on earth, generally speaking, is to learn and grow, and I am a strong proponent of personal and spiritual growth. For this reason, I strive in my work with clients to provide insight that will facilitate their own process of unfolding, wherever they may be in that process.
I have a tendency to intertwine personal and spiritual growth, rather than segregating them, because I feel that it is difficult, in fact, to truly separate them from each other or, indeed, to have one without the other. We often view personal growth as perhaps psychological in nature rather than spiritual — working on our issues, for example. Because of this view, we may regard personal growth as a lesser priority because we see it as “unspiritual” or as unnecessary when we want to be focusing on what we perceive to be more spiritual pursuits. What I have come to learn, however, is that it is often the personal issues and stuff that may be clouding and impeding our spirituality, so that our personal growth (clearing away some of our “stuff”) may lead to spiritual growth. Hence, I feel that one (personal growth) will often lead to or allow us to open up to the other (spiritual growth). In addition, clearing away some of the dross of our “stuff” and growing personally shifts our energy from a denser vibration to a lighter one, syncing