Personal development: The implications of acceptance August 31, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: acceptance, controlling ego, Eckhart Tolle, life, philosophy, resistance, surrender, The Power of Now, writing
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In much of the literature of personal growth theory there is a repeating theme of the need to bring the practice of acceptance into our lives.
We are told that without adhering to the principle of acceptance, we will be frozen into the judgemental world we are trying so hard to escape through programs directed at reaching our full personal development potential.
Eckhart Tolle, in his book, Practicing the Power of Now, views acceptance as a form of surrender, and compares it with its opposite, resistance: “Bondage or inner freedom from external conditions. Suffering or inner peace.”
Non-surrender ultimately means expending significant intellectual and moral energy on the act and implications of resistance:
“If you can never accept what is, by implication you will not be able to accept anybody the way they are. You will judge, criticize, label, reject, or attempt to change people.”
— Dennis Mellersh
Personal growth: What if we were born with an owner’s manual? July 26, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: achieving goals, inspiration, life, personal development manual, personal development potential, personal growth, personal improvement, philosophy, writing
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Would our personal development efforts be a lot easier if we were issued a personal, customized owner’s manual or video at birth?
Our personal owner’s manual would probably be much like the self-improvement materials in various media that we are already familiar with.
We can easily imagine some of the chapters and the details of the contents on such topics as self-actualization, building self-esteem, achieving goals, developing confidence, realizing our potential, profiting from failure, improving our health.
The point is, in maximizing our personal growth possibilities, we already know, for the most part, what is required of us.
We just need to do it.
That’s the hard part.
– Dennis Mellersh
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