Monday July 7, 2008
Category: Inner Wisdom with Renita WeemsThe Inner Wisdom of Self
We talk as though there is only one self within when there is, in fact, a committee of personalities living within each of us. The members of your internal committee represent different parts of yourself, competing sides of your personality, a multiplicity of inner voices sometimes clamouring for expression.
“I keep a journal,” a writer once wrote, “in order to stay in conversation with the many women who live inside me.” That’s as good advice as any on the wisdom of journaling. We all carry around within our heads voices that vie with each other about what’s best for us. Each voice has value and a role to play in your life. Taking time out to committee within is good for the soul. Which is why it’s important to get away and take time to hear yourself (your selves, I should say) think.
Call time out, go inward, and call for a committee meeting.
How do you negotiate the clamouring voices within? Get to know the different members of your inner committee by writing about each one of them (your bold self, your shy and timid self, your reflective self, your wounded self). Who exactly are these parts of yourself?
--Renita Weems
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"We talk as though there is only one self within when there is, in fact, a committee of personalities living within each of us"
How true this is, how true....and I sometimes wonder if there is a definite number of personalties within us which when "experienced' and "overcome" eg the fear-personality, the shy-personality, the lusty-personalty, the anger-personality etc. eventually leads us to the god-personalities whence the joy, peace, love prevail.
My strongest easily touched person is the anger person who simply lashes out when slightest afflicted and another person is the laughter person who also comes out joyfully when activated; but then there is sullen, moody person, the bitter person, the sensous person, the jocular person, the humble and kind person, the lazy person, the prayer and worship person who puzzles "me' because he tends to cry like a child when praising and worshiping God.....and then there is worrior person who thinks of gathering weapons and going after my 'enemies'.
How do I reconcile these warring members of the commitee living within myself such that the peace and love and joy personalities can prevail?
Someone somewhere knows the method or technique or the secret of gathering all these personalities in a basket called the body such that the higher value persons ie the peace, the joy and the love can person prevail.
Dear Renita, should i seek the chairmanship of the priest, or minister, or the guru, or the medicine cabinet..or in the commitee of gathering of these various personalties within me?
Posted by: Mohamed | April 15, 2008 5:20 AM
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