You Already Are Yourself When Seeking to Find Yourself
- Amy M. Toney
- Jul 24, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 2, 2024
The path to finding yourself can be winding, confusing, and frustrating. The wild truth is you already are yourself when you seek to find yourself!
Let’s break it down.
Labels, Categories, and Definitions
Strip away the labels, categories, and definitions you’ve sought to find yourself. Sometimes, someone seeking to find themselves will take a series of assessments and quizzes to get the answer. However, overly identifying with any particular label, category, or definition is restrictive and actually takes you further away from who you are. You are closer to who you are when you release and strip away the labels by which others and you define yourself.
Ever-Changing
You are always changing whether it be your physical body regenerating cells or whether it be your thoughts or feelings or consciousness. “All human beings are made of the five ever-changing, ever-flowing rivers of the physical body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness…we are all continually changing” (Hanh, 2017).
Unlimited Potentialities
You, yourself, has unlimited potentialities. When you empty yourself of “fixed notions, power struggles, judgmental attitudes, and other ego preoccupations” (Bai, 2012, p. 323) you welcome greater inner space, greater inner peace, and freedom for YOU to BE. This can even relate to growth vs. fixed mindset. As first coined by Stanford University professor, Carol Dweck, a fixed mindset is one of ‘either I have it or I don’t’ whereas a growth mindset is more dynamic allowing for change and growth, i.e. unlimited potentialities.
The YOU without labels and definitions, YOU ever-changing and ever-flowing, and YOU of unlimited potentialities - this is the path to and of YOU.
Some can go through life trying to find themselves without realizing they already are themselves. You are yourself right this very moment. This very present moment. However, who you are may be hidden or shadowed by the labels and definitions, fixed notions, power struggles, judgmental attitudes and other ego preoccupations. Strip these barriers away introducing bright light and space for allowing the ever-flowing and ever-changing rivers of the physical body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness; allowing the YOU of unlimited potentialities to shine.
Ready to further uncover and reveal yourself welcoming a positive ripple effect and clarity across your life and being? Harmoniously Herself™ transformational coaching is here for you! 💗
References
Bai, H. (2012). Reclaiming our moral agency through healing: A call to moral, social, environmental
activists. Journal of Moral Education, 41(3), 311–327.
Dweck, C.S. (2006). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. New York, NY: Random House.
Hanh, T.N. (2017). The Art of Living. New York, NY: Harper One.
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